(Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
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any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
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Nirvana \Nir*va"na\, n. [Skr. nirv[=a][.n]a.] 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}.
"It was a marketer's nirvana," says Wes Bray, managing partner of Market Growth Resources in Wilton, Conn., a consumer goods marketing consultant.
Along with real GDP growth of 3 1/2 per cent per annum, this would seem to be the British equivalent of economic nirvana. Unfortunately, old British problems are likely to experience several reincarnations before then.
And cynic that I am, my eyes fill with tears. This is not to suggest that South Africa has overnight attained national nirvana.
A master of the art might even learn to see all the honking and crowding as a path to enlightenment _ a sort of nirvana on wheels.
Nearly every day, Carol Cramer comes to the Paradise Shopping Center to buy her piece of nirvana.