nir|va|na

nir|va|na
nir|va|na or Nir|va|na «nihr VAH nuh, -VAN uh; nuhr-», noun.
1. the Buddhist idea of heavenly peace; condition in which the soul is free from all desire and pain; perfect happiness reached by the complete absorption of oneself into the supreme universal spirit: »

In the most final Heaven of the Buddhists…the state of Nirvana, the soul loses its separate identity and is absorbed into the Great Soul of the World (Norbert Wiener),

2. the Hindu idea of freedom of the soul; reunion with the world soul reached by the suppression of individual existence.
3. Figurative. any condition likened to either of these; blessed oblivion: »

Jazz and fast cars, in that order, are Dean's ladder to nirvana (Phoebe Adams).

╂[< Sanskrit nirvāna extinction < nis out + vā to blow]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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