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[Alexandr Korol]

or this evil spirit in general, or perhaps there are many of them, for some reason are raising me in this way, and I go through all of this, but what I’ve noticed recently is that I was entering nirvana. I didn’t stay there, but it’s as if this dark force knocks me into it, into this eighth corner. And now let’s try once more, from my perspective, to understand what nirvana is. Wikipedia states that “it is (“extinguishing,” “cessation,” “absence” of agitation, anxiety, dissatisfaction, impatience, passions) — a concept in Indian religious thought denoting the highest goal and the deepest realization of all living beings, primarily humans, achieved through the practice of meditation and playing a crucial role in Buddhism. There are many definitions of the concept of “nirvana,” but it is usually associated with a state of liberation from the distress inherent in existence within samsara. Nirvana has a number of characteristics, the most important of which is non-attachment.” So, if we comment on Nirvana, it is the liberation from the four worlds. Just above, I revisited cosmology to remind what these four worlds are, and under the four worlds, it turns out, samsara itself is also implied. So before we try to understand what awakening, enlightenment, and nirvana are, let’s once again understand what it is we need to be freed from. That is, samsara. “Samsara (“wandering, roaming”) — the cycle of birth and death in worlds limited by karma, is one of the fundamental concepts in Indian philosophy: the soul, drowning in the “ocean of samsara,” strives for liberation (moksha) and release from the results of its past actions (karma), which are part of the “net of samsara.”
Samsara is one of the central concepts in Indian religions — Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. Each of these religious traditions offers its own interpretations of the concept of samsara. In most traditions and philosophical schools, samsara is seen as an unfavorable condition from which one must escape. For example, in the Advaita Vedanta philosophical school of Hinduism, as well as in some directions of Buddhism, samsara is viewed as the result of ignorance in understanding one’s true “self,” ignorance under the influence of which the individual or soul mistakes the temporary and illusory world for reality itself.” So it turns out that samsara is when a person loses their inner self, when they lose their clairvoyance, when they lose that “corridor,” that world, as I call it, the world “without mind,” the world of awareness.