Nirvana

nir-va'na, in Buddhist philosophy, the ultimate state or condition into which the soul enters after it has been perfected by the long processes of metempsychosis or transmigration. Karma is the active earthly life of struggle, and may continue for thousands of years, but at the end of Karma is "Nirvana the Blest." The word Nirvana means a blowing out, and the Buddhist conception seems to be of a condition equivalent to extinction. It is "freedom from the pang of earthly existence."