One liberated while yet alive, acts but not saying that he is liberated. At the same time, he is not a fool either. Though in the midst of world, he is happy, graceful and shines undimmed.
Spiritual enlightenment and its characteristics are not truly evident to others. They are experienced by oneself, like the mind, its qualities. So, Jeevanmukta will not appear to be so for others. However, he will not be a fool, unmindful of environments.
World remains the same before all. Difference is only in treating it and the effects it evokes in each. Spiritual enlightenment is like waking up from dream. Waker will be indifferent to all he saw and felt in dream. Even if the dream was for days or months, the moment one is awake from it, all dream events vanish abruptly.
In the same way, the moment seeker becomes enlightened, the whole world loses its power to cause any influences in the Knower, who will be like one awakened from his wakeful dream. Neither world nor its objects will have their differential effects on him.
He senses objects, but finds them as imprints on his mind within. As his inner imprints, he begins to wonder whether he should seek to acquire them, as one will external objects?
Externality and grossness turn to be a full myth. In this new light everything changes for him. A new evaluation, insight, enlightenment dawns. What is there besides him to yearn for or possess?
With nothing to influence him unduly, Knower is gracefully cheerful before all. Though in world, he is above it, ever delighted! What a great relaxation and how ecstatic it is!