Bora, Shakuntala2021-10-082021-10-082021-030976-4496https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4079Nāgārjuna says that liberation is attained not with the help of being or nonbeing but by knowledge of being and non-being. We have Nāgārjuna saying: ‘One is not liberated by being (bhāva), one does not [transcend] the being1 (bhāva) by nonbeing (abhāva), [but] by thorough knowledge of being and non-being (bhā vā bhāvaparijn͂ ānāt) the magnanimous (mahātma) are liberated.’2 For Nāgārjuna this state is the very transcendence of being and non-being by understanding: ‘Those whose intelligence (buddhi) has transcended being and non-being and is unsupported have discovered the profound and inobjective meaning of ‘condition’.’3...enArticle