What’s next after Nirvana?

Question

After all the years and lifetimes of training and preparations you reached Nirvana. You know All-That-Is you are All-That-Is. What are you going to do now? Dissolve into yourself and seize to exist? What’s next?

Answer 1

Interesting phrase, "seize to exist."

Answer 2

Well, if you're a Hindu, every six thousand years the world dissolves and rests for a thousand and then you have to start the whole process over again.

If you're Buddhist, then you have a larger problem. Buddha himself had no idea what happened after death. He just wanted out of the diabolically enslaving Hindu Karmic wheel. His followers came up with Nirvana, but the question there is do you have any consciousness of yourself or are just dissolved as a rain drop into a puddle.

If you're a Christian or Jew, you know that God has said in the Bible that we life once and after this the judgment. Two places possible to go--those old standbys, heaven and hell.

If you're Islam, I suggest you be male. The ladies don't get such a good go of it.

Answer 3

There is a tricky aspect in this question: if you have reached Nirvana you have eliminated any desire and, consequently, you can't desire to make any other movement in your life or to make any other decision about what you are doing next (you would never ask "what's next", you don't have even curiosity) so, if the moment comes that you ask yourself what you are going to do next, you are not in a Nirvana situation anymore, and, then, you are just a normal human trying to look for something else, for a challenge, full of desires and anxities again.
Most probably, then, you will try to look for another thing in life that is different from Nirvana, since this one, once, finished, and then, proved to be limited in time and, at the end, left you unsatisfied, so that you know now that THE ANSWER is not in that Nirvana and, consequently, you try to look around for something else, something that you want to be forever. (The answer is not in YA neither, most probably) Unfortunately, there is a trick in here again: nothing is forever, as it is the movement, the journey, full of tensioned curiosity, that makes life, pulling us towards something else, obviously, forcing us to move continuosly and renounce to happiness concieved as a static fact in life. Without movement or change, that continuous and painfull steering of our soul, there is not life. Nirvana, happiness or any other similar things are conceivable for a moment, but at the next moment everything it's over.

Answer 4

Westerners who misunderstand the Eastern Teachings insist that Nirvana is the total annihilation of self. But to the true students, Nirvana signifies the absence of all negative and undesirable human passions and character traits – a state of spiritual purity and perfection. To them, life continues more glorious and blissful, the way God intended life to be.

Answer 5

Soul reaching a perfect state with absence of all negative and undesirable human traits is impossible for any soul.
Only Almighty can be that perfect.

Nirvana in Buddhism and Moksha in Hinduism mean the
same thing. The soul gets the eligibility to be released
from the cycles of rebirth. The soul ceases to exist -
it joins super soul and becomes one with it.

Answer 6

either nothingness, total dissolution ...
or
a guest spot on SNL...which is in the act of becoming-after all the years and lifetimes of training and preparations-the embodiment of non-existence*

* of comedy