Nirvana

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  • noun. A state in which the mind, enlightened as to the illusory nature of the self, transcends all suffering and attains peace.
  • noun. A state in which the soul, having relinquished individual attachments and recognized its identity with Brahman, escapes samsara.
  • noun. An ideal condition of rest, harmony, stability, or joy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In Buddhism, the condition of a Buddha; the state to which the Buddhist saint is to aspire as the highest aim and highest good.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of worldly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
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  • noun. complete cessation of suffering; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience.
  • noun. state of paradise; heightened or great pleasure.
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  • noun. (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
  • noun. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
  • Word Usage
    "What makes it worth it here, in what A Geography of Oysters author Rowan Jacobsen calls Washington's "oyster nirvana," is the belief that these waters, and these skilled farmers, have something singular to offer shellfish gourmets."
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