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What happens when one attains Nirvana or the Great Emptiness?

Nirvana extinguishes the mind, revealing the Great Emptiness, while even in the body, the enlightened act from compassion, transcending the ordinary into the realm of the invisible.

— Osho
According to Osho, nirvana first extinguishes the mind—emptiness is realized while the body still lives—so an enlightened one may continue acting, usually out of compassion, despite a subtlest residue of being. With mahanirvana, at the body’s death, even that residue dissolves: sovereign, supreme emptiness, invisible to ordinary eyes, remains. In Krishna, this union of nirvana and mahanirvana is simultaneous; in Buddha, sequential.

First your thoughts end but you still live and help; later, when the body dies, even the last trace of ‘you’ melts into total peace.

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