Nirvana in Sanskrit means "extinction". In other words, it is the extinction of worldly desires and ignorance, sources of suffering and ego. Through meditation and asceticism it is possible to reach this state of full bliss, which frees from the cycle of reincarnations. Regarding the latter, Maitreya says: "knowledge has advanced sufficiently so that we can now understand that thought and consciousness have a physical substratum, so that we are getting closer and closer to the understanding of the existence of God as an objective material fact and not as an immaterial subjective potentiality, and therefore, unrealizable and incomprehensible.We can now identify our perception of God, or the Absolute, with the Unified Consciousness Field or Quantum Information Field. The Fifth Force that regulates order in all Creation in the physical universe.God being now a real and not an imaginary fact, we can contact Him in a simpler and more direct way, as we have never done or tried before".