Nirvana

Nirvana is the entire blowing out like the flame of the candle, the utter extinction of existence. So badly had the significance of the ancient Indian thought (and even its language, the Sanskrit) been understood, that for many years erudite European scholars were discussing whether being "blown out" meant actual entitative annihilation or not. But the being "blown out" refers only to the lower principles in man.

Nirvana is a very different thing from the "heavens." Nirvana is a state of utter bliss and complete, untrammeled consciousness, a state of absorption in pure kosmic Being, and is the wondrous destiny of those who have reached superhuman knowledge and purity and spiritual illumination. It really is personal individual absorption into or rather identification with the Self -- the Higher SELF. It is also the state of the monadic entities in the period that intervenes between minor manvantaras or Rounds of a Planetary Chain; and more fully so between each seven Round period or Day of Brahma, and the succeeding Day or new Kalpa of a Planetary Chain. At these last times, starting forth from the seventh sphere in the seventh Round, the monadic entities will have progressed far beyond even the highest state of Devachan. Too pure and too far advanced even for such a condition as the devachanic felicity, they go to their appropriate sphere and condition, which latter is the Nirvana following the end of the seventh Round.

Devachan and Nirvana are not localities. They are states, states of the beings in those respective spiritual conditions. Devachan is the intermediate state; Nirvana is the super-spiritual state; and Avichi, popularly called the lowest of the hells, is the nether pole of the spiritual condition. These three are states of beings having habitat in the Lokas (places) or Talas, in the world of the Kosmic Egg.

So far as the individual human being is concerned, the nirvanic state or condition may be attained to by great spiritual Seers and Sages, such as Gautama the Buddha, and even by men less progressed than he; because in these cases of the attaining of the Nirvana even during a man's life on earth, the meaning is that one so attaining has through evolution progressed so far along the Path that all the lower personal part of him is become thoroughly impersonalized, the personal has put on the garment of impersonality, and such a man thereafter lives in the nirvanic condition of the spiritual monad.

As a concluding thought it must be pointed out that Nirvana, while the Ultima Thule of the perfection to be attained by any human being, nevertheless stands less high in the estimate of mystics than the condition of the Bodhisattva. For the Bodhisattva, although standing on the threshold of Nirvana and seeing and understanding its ineffable glory and peace and rest, nevertheless retains his consciousness in the worlds of men, in order to consecrate his vast faculties and powers to the service of all that is. The Buddhas in their higher parts enter the Nirvana, in other words, assume the Dharmakaya state or vesture, whereas the Bodhisattva assumes the Nirmanakaya vesture, thereafter to become an ever active and compassionate and beneficent influence in the world. The Buddha indeed may be said to act indirectly and by "long distance control," thus indeed helping the world diffusively or by diffusion; but the Bodhisattva acts directly and positively and with a directing will in works of compassion, both for the world and for individuals.

Marguerite dar Boggia is the former Membership Secretary and Director for ISAR, the International Society for Astrological Research. She is the former Publisher of Kosmos, the ISAR journal. She is a co-founder of UAC and its former Secretary and Director. Her goal is to serve humanity and the spiritual Hierarchy of our planet. To that end, she offers FREE, online, three pages weekly of the Ageless Wisdom Teachings of the Trans-Himalayan Center, which knowledge was known by Pythagoras.. It later includes esoteric astrology and information from the book: "A Treatise on Cosmic Fire" which book was on Albert Einstein's desk. If you wish to receive these teachings, contact her websites: www.FreePythagorasTeachings.com, and/or www.PythagorasTeachings.com, which websites, she created at the age of 90.