According to Shankara, the one “liberated-in-this-life” (jivan- mukta) is not he who stands apart from all that is human, it is he who, when he “laughs with those who laugh and weeps with those who weep,” remains the supernaturally unaffected witness of the “cosmic play” (lila). (GTUFS: PlayMasks, Delineations of Original Sin)