Withdrawal and Engagement On Bodhisattva Path
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Niveda: The Preliminary and Conditional States for the Achieving of Nirvana
Niveda is described as weariness, disgust with worldly life. It's part of the preliminary and conditional states for the attainment of Nirvana. In the Pali dictionary it also goes on to say it occurs frequently together with Viraga, Vimute and Nirvana. They are the next three stages that come in the spiral path. There's four stages after knowledge and vision. And it leads to being thoroughly tired of the world, to dispassionateness, to destruction of the ego, to perfect wisdom to Nirvana.
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