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"The illusion vanished when I recognized him" (XXXIX.).] [Footnote 658: He even uses the word nirvâṇa.] [Footnote 659: From Kabir's acrostic.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896
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a very distinctly marked rank in the Occult Hierarchy; He is a being who has attained what is called "liberation" in the East, what is called "salvation" in the West; a being whose soul and Spirit have become unified, who lives consciously on the highest plane of our own universe -- the fivefold universe -- and whose centre of consciousness is on the âṭmic, sometimes called the nirvâṇic, plane.
London Lectures of 1907 Annie Wood Besant 1890
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But that's why I'm here to correct him. on 02 / 28 / 2009, -1 / +3and what's more, it's obviously photoshopped too, right nirv?
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_nirv [= a] [n.] a_ (extinguishing) of a lamp, iv.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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_pari-nirv [= a] [n.] a_ as absolute annihilation.] [Footnote 31: Some scholars think that the doctrine of
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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a synonym of the Dharma-kâya and in that sense universally present in all beings, (_b_) upadhiśesha-nirvâṇa, the state of enlightenment which can be attained during life, while the body with its limitations still remains, (_c_) anupadhiśesha-nirvâṇa, a higher degree of the same state attained after death when the hindrances of the body are removed, (_d_) Nirvana without abode or apratishṭhita-nirvâṇa.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Charles Eliot 1896
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