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without any support. All sorrows end here (In realization of this truth suffering ends). (Bouddha Philosophy and Literature)
It is said in the Digha Nikaya:
In that space there is no talk of creation, sustaining of creation or death. In this space infinity abounds. There is no water, no earth and no light. There is even no air.
Thus it can be seen that the state of liberation that both the Buddha and the sages of the Upanishads referred to as nirvana is the same as the state of liberation that the Indian sants call mukti. The Buddhist and Vedic texts, as well as the Santmat texts, are in complete agreement with respect to these concepts of nirvana and mukti. This will be clear as we compare some of these references from various texts.
The Katha Upanishad describes the state of nirvana as follows:
There the sun does not shine, nor the moon. There is no light and not even fire can exist there. But due to its (that mysterious power) existence it gives light to all of creation. And all creation is seen by its light.
In the Bhagavad-Gita Lord Krishna says:
There the sun does not shine nor moon nor fire. Having reached this Divine abode (My abode) no one returns.
Saint Kabir Sahab elaborates on the Highest State:
Let me give you a depiction of that realm. In that realm there is no day, no night, no sun, no moon, no
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