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Attainment of nirvana

July 12, 2021

Nirvana means extinction, coolness, liberation, uprooting, extinction and disappearance of all desires and mental intoxication.

Attainment of enlightenment means understanding, getting close to, experiencing, and experimenting to clear one’s doubt.

Four types of persons who can attain nirvana are as follows.

1. Stream-Enterer means one who has attained the first stage of holiness. Person who is not lost. The first person who has attained the stream of Dharma (the Noble Eightfold Path). Person who can abandon the following three fetters that bind man to the round of rebirth.

1. Self-illusion means one thinks that one’s body and mind belong to oneself.

2. Skepticism means doubt in practice whether one’s practice is correct according to the Noble Eightfold Path and doubt whether the Triple Gem or the Four Noble Truths really exist.

3. Adherence to mere rule and ritual

2. Once-Returner; one who will be reborn on the earth only once before attaining the final emancipation. One who can abandon the mentioned three fetters that bind man to the round of rebirth. One who can lessen the other following two basic fetters.

Sensual passion means satisfaction from pleasing objects, taste, scent, sound, tough and cognizable objects.

Repulsion means resentment like delicate vengeance.

3. Never-Returner means person who is never born as human or angels. Person will be born one more time as Brahman and will attain nirvana. One who has already abandoned the five fetters that bind man to the round of rebirth.

4.Arahant means person who has attained the most noble Buddhist Dharma. One who can abandon all ten fetters that bind man to the round of rebirth. The rest of five fetters that an Arahant can abandon are as follows.

1. Desire for life in the world of form means satisfaction in Jhanas (Absorptions) of the Fine-material Sphere or satisfaction for the life of Brahman who has physical body.

2. Desire for life in the formless worlds means satisfaction in the four Absorptions of the Formless Sphere or abstract object such as knowledge or satisfaction for the life of Brahman who is formless.

3. Conceit or pride of one’s being such as being a Never-Returner (even though one really is)

4. Restlessness means mental distraction

5. Ignorance means lack of knowledge and delusion

There are two types of nirvana as follows.

1. Nirvana with the substratum of life remaining means one no longer has any desire or defilement, but one is still alive.

2. Nirvana without any remainder of physical existence means one no longer has any desire or defilement, and one is not alive.

Those who have attained nirvana will have following outcome.

1. One’s mind is not wavered by worldly conditions.

2. One’s mind is not sorrowful.

3. One’s mind is without any impurity.

4. One’s mind is at profound peace.

Buddha Isara