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I got a term called "Nirvana" from some1's yahoo ID. no doubt I was pretty much aware of the term right from my history classes where i read about Lord Buddha. Wiki says , nirvana connotes an extinguishing or "blowing out" of a fire or candle flame.It carries further connotations of stilling, cooling, and peace; the realizing of nirvana is compared to a fire gone out when its fuel supply is finished; this fuel being primarily the false idea of self, which causes (and is caused by) among other things craving, consciousness, birth, death, greed, hate, delusion, ignorance. Nirvana, then, is not a place nor a state, it is an absolute truth to be realized, and a person can do so without dying.When a person who has realized nirvana dies, his death is referred as his parinirvana, his fully passing away, as his life was his last link to the cycle of death and rebirth, and he will not be reborn again. Buddhism holds that the ultimate goal and end of existence is realization of nirvana; what happens to a person after his parinirvana cannot be explained, as it is outside of all conceivable experience.Well thats what the wiki says.


Now what do i have to say . There are three things in the world , the basis for our existence.Attachments , desires , hope ... the three things , cant think of anything as the fouth. Attachments form the basis of relations, desires the basis of work and hope the basis of performance. Now suppose , 1 by 1 we remove these things from life . What we have , is that life ?? or is it just death before death . We are born for a purpose , aint we ? Does that mean , if we start in search of nirvana , we are running away from our responsibilities . or does it mean that nirvana is our prior responsibility , and we must attain it .

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