NIRVANA
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Nirvânî
(Sanskrit)
From H P Blavatsky’s
Theosophical Glossary
Published 1892
One who has attained
Nirvana—an emancipated soul. That
Nirvâna means nothing of the kind asserted by Orientalists
every scholar who has visited
absolute annihilation”, we concur, adding to the last word the
qualification “of everything connected with matter or the physical world”, and
this simply because the latter (as also all in it) is illusion, mâyâ. Sâkya-műni Buddha said in
the
last moments of his life that “the spiritual body is
immortal” (See Sans. Chin. Dict.).
As Mr. Eitel, the scholarly Sinologist, explains it: “The popular exoteric
systems agree in defining Nirvâna negatively as a state of absolute
exemption from the circle of transmigration; as a state of entire
freedom from all forms of existence; to begin with, freedom from all passion
and exertion; a state of indifference to all sensibility” and he might have
added “death of all
compassion for the world of suffering”. And this is why the Bodhisattvas who prefer the Nirmânakâya
to the Dharmakâya vesture, stand higher in the popular estimation than the Nirvânîs. But the same scholar adds that: “Positively (and esoterically)
they define Nirvâna as the highest state of spiritual bliss, as absolute
immortality through absorption of the soul (spirit rather) into itself, but
preserving individuality so that, e.g., Buddhas, after entering Nirvâna, may
reappear on earth”—i.e., in the future
Manvantara.
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THEOSOPHY
NIRVANA
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