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Page 178. When these effects of the chain of causation are thus one by one put an end to, he at last, being free from all stain and substratum, will pass into a blissful Nirvana.
Buddhist Mahayan text P. II Sukhavati Vyuha. " Page 29. “Hence, O Anand for that reason that Tathagata is called amitâbha (possessed of infinite light), and is called amitprabha (possesssd of infinite splendour), amitaprabhâs (possessed of infinite brilliancy, asamâptaprabhâ (whose light is never finished) asangataprabhâ (whose light is not conditioned).”
Buddhacharya Hindi by Sadhu Rahula Sankrityayan 1988 S. V. .
Page 36. Adittapariyaya sutta (S. N. 43-3-6) Defectless-realisable not by any other help----nirvana
-seeing it, I became disattached from the seen and the destroyable.
I have given above some extracts about Nirvana, from the Buddhist works which I could find for study. I shall hereafter show that authoritative Jain books declare nirvana to be a similar condition.
According to the Jains, Nirvana is a condition of soul, free from all bondage of Karmas, all impure thought activities bringing inflow of Karmas, devoid of all kinds of fine and gross bodies, being cessation of all the worldly miseries, fully blissful, peaceful, enlightened and eternal, without fall.
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