SORTS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 43Experience 5: This monk life leads to complete detachment, to freedom
from desire, to peace, to superknowledge, to the highest
insight, to nibbana.
(Digha Nikaya II, 251)
Experience 6: This is peace, this is the highest, namely the calming of
the activities, the rejection of all attachment, the
destruction of craving, the freedom from desire, nibbana.
(Anguttara Nikaya V, 110)
Experience 7: Freedom from pride, restraint of thirst, uprooting of
attachment, cutting off of the cycle of existences,
destruction of craving, freedom from desire, ceasing,
nibbana.
(Ibid. I, 88)
Experience 8*: But when I comprehended, as it really is, the
satisfaction of the world as satisfaction, the misery as
misery, and the escape as escape, then I understood fully
and accepted full Buddha status, and the knowledge and
the vision arose in me: sure is the release of my mind:
this is my last birth.
(Ibid. I, 259)
Experience 9: With the knees high and the head low, in deep
meditation, he [Mahavira, a founder of Jainism] reached
Nirvana, the complete and full, the unobstructed,
unimpeded, infinite and supreme, best knowledge and
intuition, called Kevala... he was a Kevalin, omniscient
and comprehending all objects, he knew all conditions of
the world, of gods, men, and demons; whence they come,
where they go, whether they are born as men or animals,
or become gods or hell-beings; their food, drink, doings,
desires, open and secret deeds, their conversation and
gossip, and the thoughts of their minds; he saw and knew
all conditions in the whole world of all living beings.
(Jaina Sutras I, 201, 202)
Experience 10: With supreme knowledge, with supreme intuition,
with supreme conduct,... with supreme uprightness,
with supreme mildness, with supreme dexterity, with
supreme patience, with supreme freedom from passions,
with supreme control, with supreme contentment, with