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The Buddhistic literature describes nirvâna as enlightenment, eternal, immortal, peaceful, blissful, unshakeable, devoid of birth and death, out of mind and speech, free from âsavâs, free from craving unattached, defectless, painless, pure, independent, nonmaterial, birthless, the highest condition, island, best, deep, realizable by the wise etc. The same attributes are applied to nirvâna in the Jain literature also.
All defects, delusion and ignorance found in mundane life are completely destroyed. Only the indestructible nature shines out. From the philosophical point of view the nirvâna of both the systems is the same. In the Jain scriptures it is further said that the liberated and perfect souls go upward and stay on the top of the universe eternally and their extent is a little less than that of the last body in the meditative posture. This statement has not been found by me in the Buddhistic literature. But the real inherent nature of nirvâna in both the systems appears to be the same without any difference whatso
ever.
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