26 November 2009
NIRVANA
Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains. Freedom or liberation is the human possibility. Buddha said, “What I have attained every one can attain.” Every man has the potential to attain Nirvana. Human life, in fact, is the gateway to Nirvana i.e. total freedom from all conditionings, all sufferings and all obsessions.
Buddha explained :
There is a sphere of experience that is beyond the entire field of matter, the entire field of mind, that is neither this world nor another world nor both, neither moon nor sun. This I call neither arising, nor passing away, nor abiding, neither dying nor rebirth. It is without support, without development, without foundation. This is the end of suffering.
He also said,
There is an unborn, unbecoming, uncreated, unconditioned. Were there not an unborn, unbecoming, uncreated, unconditioned, no release would be known from the born, the becoming, the created, the conditioned. But since there is an unborn, unbecoming, uncreated, unconditioned, therefore, a release is known from the born, the becoming, the created, the conditioned.
Nirvana is not just a stage one gets after death but something to be experienced within oneself here and now. It is difficult to define or describe. We have no real word to define it because it is something beyond mind and matter. Any description of nirvana will only be confusing. Rather than discussing and arguing about it, the important thing is to experience it. “This noble truth of the cessation of suffering must be realized for oneself”, said Buddha. It is only when one has experiencedNirvana that he understands the ultimate truth of liberation.
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