SORTS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 45Experience 14: He reached Nirvana, the complete and full, the
unobstructed, unimpeded, infinite and supreme, best
knowledge and intuition, called Kevala.
(Ibid. I, 201)
Experience 15: (The liberated) with their departing breath reach
absolute perfection, wisdom, liberation, final
Nirvana, the end of all misery.
(Ibid. I, 94)
Experience 16: Having annihilated his Karman [= karma] both
meritorious and sinful, being steadfast (self-controlled)
... [the enlightened one] crossed the ocean-like flood of
worldly existence and obtained exemption from
transmigration.
(Ibid. I, 111, 112)
Experience 17: What is called Nirvana, or freedom from pain, or
perfection, which is in view of all; it is the safe, happy,
and quiet place which all the great sages reach. This is
the eternal place, in view of all, but difficult of
approach. Those sages who reach it are free from
sorrow, they have put an end to the stream of existence.
(Ibid. I, 128)
Experience 18: [Kevalins] have obtained perfection, enlightenment,
deliverance, final beatitude, and... an end to all
misery.
(Ibid. II, 158)
Experience 19: [A Kevalin] obtains perfection, enlightenment,
deliverance, and final beatitude and puts an end to all
misery.
(Ibid. II, 173)
Experience 20: When a seer sees the brilliant Maker, Lord, Person,
the Brahman-source, then, being a knower, shaking off
good and evil, stainless, he attains supreme identity
with Him.
(Mundaka Upanishad III, i, 3)
Experience 21: Not by sight is it grasped, not even by speech, not
by any other sense-organs, austerity, or work, by the