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certainty of Nirvana, that it was the final goal, the Summum Bonum of all the six philosophies. Its nature inight be approxiinately understood by examining the various synonymous words used for it. Mukti and Moksha, deliverance; Amrita, im. mortality; a pavarga, delivery, conclusion ; Nihasreyasa, which Max Muller explains by Non plus ultra, and Colebrooke as assured excellence, perfection ; Karvalya isolation or detachment: Ananda, bliss ; these are some of the words used to describe the £nal state of deliverance. We have seen the sense in which the word Nirvana is used by the Vedantists, as that state in which the individual soul identifies itself with the Highest Soul; we also saw how the Sankhya philosophers lised it, as the perfect state of rest and bliss, the state of beatitude which the Purusha freed from the fetters of Prakriti enjoys. Now we will consider what this Nirvana meant with the Buddhists and the Jains. With them, as well as with the
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