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'''Pariniṣpanna''' (devanāgarī: परिनिष्पन्न) is a [[Sanskrit]] term meaning "developed, perfect, real, existing."<ref>[http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=DI&beginning=0+&tinput=pariniSpanna+&trans=Translate&direction=AU# Pariniṣpanna] at Spoken Sanskrit Dictionary</ref>
'''Pariniṣpanna''' (devanāgarī: परिनिष्पन्न) is a [[Sanskrit]] term meaning "developed, perfect, real, existing."<ref>[http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?script=DI&beginning=0+&tinput=pariniSpanna+&trans=Translate&direction=AU# Pariniṣpanna] at Spoken Sanskrit Dictionary</ref>
[[H. P. Blavatsky]], (who used the spelling "paranishpanna") defined it as follows:
<blockquote>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.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 53.</ref></blockquote>


== Notes ==
== Notes ==

Revision as of 15:21, 24 July 2012

Pariniṣpanna (devanāgarī: परिनिष्पन्न) is a Sanskrit term meaning "developed, perfect, real, existing."[1]

H. P. Blavatsky, (who used the spelling "paranishpanna") defined it as follows:

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.[2]

Notes

  1. Pariniṣpanna at Spoken Sanskrit Dictionary
  2. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 53.

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