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Nirvâna
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The name given to the consummation of bliss in the Hindu, but especially the Buddhist, religions, synonymous with extinction, which in the Hindu creed means the extinction of individuality by absorption in the Divine Being, and in Buddhism, not, as some presume, the extinction of existence, but the extinction of agitation of mind through the crucifixion of all passion and desire, the attainment of self-centred, self-sufficient quiescence of being, or rest and peace of soul.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Nirvâna'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/n/nirvna.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Nirvâna'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/n/nirvna.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
