A Jivan Mukta or Jeevan Mukta is someone who, in the Advaita Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism, has gained and assimilated self-knowledge, thus is liberated with an inner sense of freedom while living. The state is the aim of moksha in Advaita Vedanta, Yoga and other schools of Hinduism, and it is referred to as jivanmukti (Self-realization).

Jivanmukti contrasts with the concept of videhamukti; the latter means "liberation or emancipation after death, in afterlife".

Jīvanmukta (Sanskrit: जीवन्मुक्त) is an adjective derived from the Sanskrit noun जीव jīva, "life", and the past participle of the verb मुच् (much, or IAST muc), "to liberate". Monier-Williams defines the term as "emancipated while still alive".^{[citation needed]}

Jīvanmukti (Sanskrit: जीवन्मुक्ति:), the corresponding abstract noun means, "liberation during life, liberation before death", or "emancipation while still alive". Other translations include "self realization", "living liberation", "enlightenment", "liberated soul", or "self liberation".

The various texts and schools of Hinduism describe the jīvanmukti state of existence as one of liberation and freedom reached within one's lifetime. Some contrast jīvanmukti with videhamukti (moksha from samsāra after death). According to these ancient Hindu Philosophical texts, Jīvanmukti is a state that transforms the nature, attributes and behaviors of an individual.

For example, according to Nāradaparivrājaka Upanishad, the enlightened individual shows attributes such as:

Ādi Śankara explains that nothing can induce one to act who has no desire of his own to satisfy. The supreme limit of Vairāgya ("non-attachment"), is the non-springing of Vāsanās in respect of enjoyable objects; the non-springing of the sense of the "I" (in things which are the Ānatman) is the extreme limit of bodhā ("awakening"), and the non-springing again of the modifications which have ceased is the extreme limit of Uparati ("abstinence"). The Jīvanmukta, by reason of his ever being Brahman, is freed from awareness of external objects and is no longer aware of any difference between the inner ātman and Brahman, or between Brahman and the world. He knows that he is Brahman. "Vijnātabrahmatattvasya yathāpūrvam na samsrtih" – "there is no saṃsāra as before for one who has known Brahman".

There are three kinds of Prārabdha Karma: Ichha ("personally desired"), Anichhā ("without desire") and Parechhā ("due to others' desire"). For a self-realized person, a Jīvanmukta, there is no ichhā-prārabdha but the two others, anichhāa and parechhā, remain, which even a jīvanmukta has to undergo. According to the Advaita school, for those of wisdom, prārabdha is liquidated only by experience of its effects; sancita ("accumulated karmas") and āgami ("future karmas") are destroyed in the fire of Dñāna ("knowledge").