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Quotes on ideas of '''[[w:Nirvana|Nirvana]]''' (निर्वाण), a [[w:Sanskrit|Sanskrit]] word that literally means "to cease blowing" (as when a candle flame ceases to flicker) or ''extinguishing'' (in reference to the passions). It is a [[w:Shramana|sramana]] philosophical concept, used by the Jains and the Buddhists, to describe the enlightenment and liberation of their respective teachers. |
Quotes on ideas of '''[[w:Nirvana|Nirvana]]''' (निर्वाण), a [[w:Sanskrit|Sanskrit]] word that literally means "to cease blowing" (as when a candle flame ceases to flicker) or ''extinguishing'' (in reference to the passions). It is a [[w:Shramana|sramana]] philosophical concept, used by the Jains and the Buddhists, to describe the enlightenment and liberation of their respective teachers. |
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* Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge... It has nothing to do with the individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. Indeed in a certain sense two "I"'s are identical namely when one disregards all special contents — their [[w:Karma|Karma]]. The goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further... when man dies his Karma lives and creates for itself another carrier. |
* Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge... It has nothing to do with the individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. Indeed in a certain sense two "I"'s are identical namely when one disregards all special contents — their [[w:Karma|Karma]]. The goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further... when man dies his Karma lives and creates for itself another carrier. |
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Quotes on ideas of Nirvana (निर्वाण), a Sanskrit word that literally means "to cease blowing" (as when a candle flame ceases to flicker) or extinguishing (in reference to the passions). It is a sramana philosophical concept, used by the Jains and the Buddhists, to describe the enlightenment and liberation of their respective teachers.
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- Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge... It has nothing to do with the individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. Indeed in a certain sense two "I"'s are identical namely when one disregards all special contents — their Karma. The goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further... when man dies his Karma lives and creates for itself another carrier.
- Erwin Schrödinger, writings of July 1918, quoted in A Life of Erwin Schrödinger (1994) by Walter Moore ISBN 0521437679
- Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore, as quoted in Wrestling Archangels (2001) by Bede Clarke
