Note 79 — Chapter XXX · MATILALL AT BENARES: HOME AGAIN.
G. D. (George Devereux) Oswell translation
Shuka was the author of the Commentary on the Vedas, and has sometimes been identified as Vishnu himself: he is said to have been the only one amongst many hundred millions of Hindoos who ever obtained perfect Nirvana: that is complete absorption into the Deity: the full expression is Nirvana Mukti, that is, Redemption, a salvation which consists in perfect absorption into the Deity.