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"What the Aryans call happy (i.e., Nirvana) others call painful; what others call happy, the Aryans call painful."

-- Vasubandhu, Abhidharmakosabhasyam, trans. Leo M. Pruden (Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1988), Chapter 6, page 898.