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It's known that Buddhism believes in the reincarnation of every life in others and, if the Karma is particularly bad, long punishments in the hell can interrupt life, while, on the contrary, an honest and generous life is rewarded with the access to a divine world.
These worlds are placed on overlapped levels and, the highest they are, the highest is the perfection of life over there.

But also this pleasant life in the divine worlds is not a worth target for a wise man, to be obtained at any cost, because also this is doomed to end with a return to the pain of the material world.
The final and definitive liberation from passions and suffering is reached only with the NIRVANA.
Nirvana means "dispersion" or "extinction" and, as preached by the Hinayana doctrine, it can be achieved already in this life from the 3 capital sins: HATE, GREED and ILLUSION.

With their death, wise persons reach a condition in which all the factors forming their personality are erased without any chance that new ones can appear.

Hence, the Nirvana, by the point of view of man living in this world, is the NOTHING and it's often compared with the empty space; in the reality, it's a relative nothing, not absolute, because who has reached it, describes this condition as a immense and supernatural joy.
The true Nirvana, to which to get, is not a static condition, but dynamic, with a superiority over the world: in this, the saint person is free from ignorance, passion, pain and from the karma and he/she works constantly and eternally for the well-being of every living creature.

Buddhism teaches that getting to the Nirvana is possible for single individuals, not for all mankind, because the number of living beings on the Earth is infinitely great.
The single can reach this salvation only after many lives, getting free little by little from all needs and from the illusion of a surviving individuality and of a world made of eternal things.

The saint Aryadeva described the way to Nirvana, to the salvation with the following words:
"Firstly, renounce to everything is evil and, then, to believe in the ego and, eventually, get you free from everything and surely, you will become a wise man".

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