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all human passions and the peace and quietness which result from it." Beal the greatest authority on Chinese Buddhism says · The earliest idea, of Nirvana seems to have included in it no more than the enjoyment of a state of rest, consequent on the extinction of all causes of sorrow." Hargrave Jennings in his book called "The Indian Religions' sums up thus the meaning of Nirvana. “ It is the rigid mathematical demonstrations of Spinoza carried out and summed. It is the conclusion and result of Hobbes' search, vain search for soul in the relics of the senses It is the form’ or 'number' or 'show' of Pythagoras. It is the Emptied Heaven of the Platonists. It is the exhausted dream -world of mystics; the quietism of the Quakers.”
The following beautiful lines from Edwin Arnold's 'Light of Asia' on the being who has attained Nirvana will we think go a great way in giving the reader a correct idea
of Nirvana, as well as of the great difficulty Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com