Videhamukti

Videhamukti is the final and complete liberation that occurs when a realized soul sheds the physical body at death. Unlike jivanmukti (liberation while living), videhamukti marks the point where even the residual karmic momentum (prarabdha karma) that sustained the body is fully exhausted. The individual self merges entirely into Brahman with no possibility of return to embodied existence.

Videhamukti represents the culmination of the spiritual journey where the last vestige of apparent individuality — the physical sheath sustained by prarabdha karma — dissolves. The jivanmukta, already established in Self-knowledge, no longer requires any vehicle for experience. It is the definitive end of the cycle of transmigration (samsara), where even the subtle body (sukshma sharira) and causal body (karana sharira) cease to function as limiting adjuncts.

From the absolute standpoint, videhamukti is not an event that 'happens' to anyone, for the Atman was never truly bound. The apparent distinction between jivanmukti and videhamukti exists only from the empirical perspective of observers. In paramarthika satya, there is neither body nor bodilessness, neither bondage nor liberation — only the non-dual Brahman, ever free, ever whole, beyond all temporal categories of before and after death.