Nirvana

Nirvana, besides being the name of a band who’s lead singer songwriter committed suicide, is a Buddhist term expressing the departure of an individual soul from the cycle of unhappiness.

Reaching Nirvana represents spiritual entry into an entirely different mode of existence, one that has reached "nirvana" is commonly thought of as having attained a sort of enlightenment or wisdom. In Buddhism, it is said to be the highest spiritual plane of existence a soul can attain.

Many renderings of the word mean literally, an "extinguishing" as in the case of a lamp, or "extinction," in which the causes for the necessity of rebirth are eliminated. It is also thought of as the point of god-realization or the ultimate realization of “self.”