Pariniṣpanna
Pariniṣpanna (devanāgarī: परिनिष्पन्न) is a Sanskrit term meaning "developed, perfect, real, existing."[1]
According to H. P. Blavatsky this state (spelled by her as "paranishpanna") is a synonym of "parinirvana". She defined it as follows:
“Paranishpanna” is the absolute perfection to which all existences attain at the close of a great period of activity, or Maha-Manvantara, and in which they rest during the succeeding period of repose. In Tibetan it is called Yong-Grüb.[2]
During maha-pralaya everything reverts to this state. Parinishpanna (or paranirvana) can be experienced consciously or unconsciously:
The condition of Paranishpanna, without Paramârtha, the Self-analysing consciousness (Svasamvedana), is no bliss, but simply extinction (for Seven Eternities). . . . It is only “with a mind clear and undarkened by personality, and an assimilation of the merit of manifold existences devoted to being in its collectivity (the whole living and sentient Universe),” that one gets rid of personal existence, merging into, becoming one with, the Absolute, and continuing in full possession of Paramârtha.[3]
When experienced consciously it is a state of bliss and absolute wisdom:
Paranishpanna, remember, is the summum bonum, the Absolute, hence the same as Paranirvana. Besides being the final state it is that condition of subjectivity which has no relation to anything but the one absolute truth (Para-mârthasatya) on its plane. It is that state which leads one to appreciate correctly the full meaning of Non-Being, which, as explained, is absolute Being. Sooner or later, all that now seemingly exists, will be in reality and actually in the state of Paranishpanna.[4]
See also
Online resources
Articles
- Paranishpanna at Theosopedia
Notes
- ↑ Pariniṣpanna at Spoken Sanskrit Dictionary
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 42.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 53-54.
- ↑ Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 53.