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' " — A la- haster. No writer has made this subject so clear to me as the erudite Max Miiller : " I go even farther, and maintain' that, if we look in the Dhainma2)(ida^ at every passage where Nir- vana is mentioned, there is not one word which would require that its meaning should be an- nihilation ; while most, if not all, would be- come perfectly unintelligible if we assigned to the word Nirvana the meaning which it has in the metaphysical position of the canon. AVhat does Buddha mean when h...e calls reflec- 104 IBuddha's lAfe and Teachings. tion the path to immortality, thoughtlessness the path of death. Biiddhagosha does not hesi- tate to explain immortality by Nirvana ; and that the same idea was connected with it in the mind of Buddha is clearly proved by a passage immediately following (v, 237) : ' The wise people, meditative, steady, always pos- sessed of strong powers, attain to ISTirvana, the highest happiness. ' " If the goal at which the followers of Bud- dha have to aim had been in the mind of Buddlia perfect annihilation, * amata, ' i.
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