Spellcheck wanted to help, but what perplexed me is that the words it suggested often made no sense to me. For example, when I typed in himmelfahrt, it thought that I should change it to "himself arhat".
OK, himself is a word in English, but arhat? What is arhat? Is that even a word?
I had to look it up to see. And amazingly enough, it is a word. In Sanskrit!
It means a "perfected person who has attained nirvana". So when Christ was making a fahrt to himmel, he himself was actually an arhat.
It means a "perfected person who has attained nirvana". So when Christ was making a fahrt to himmel, he himself was actually an arhat.
Turns out spellcheck is even better than I thought, making translations at the same time it checks my spelling.
I know a dozen or so Sanskrit words. This one is new to me. Arhat is what I wanna be! V
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