Nirvana
English Meaning
In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of worldly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
- Buddhism The ineffable ultimate in which one has attained disinterested wisdom and compassion.
- Hinduism Emancipation from ignorance and the extinction of all attachment.
- An ideal condition of rest, harmony, stability, or joy.