Is There a Difference Between Ecstasy and Nirvana?

When we have what I would call a non-imagistic type of experience it's pretty much the same thing all over the world and in whatever tradition it happens to arise. But because it is an extraordinarily difficult thing to describe people use images and figures of speech which lie ready to them. A person who is a believer in God will almost inevitably draw in his idea of God to interpret this experience whereas on the other hand a person who is not a believer inGod will not use that way of describing it. And the types of description the imagery used is so diverse that very naturally students of comparative religion and comparative mysticism are sometimes led to believe that there are completely different kinds of insight. So