Nirvana has been on my mind for such a long time that I have often thought of conducting a content analysis of my Residua using this word. Having just gone through the exercise, I am quite surprised by the results. To begin with, there are only twenty of my pieces of writing that contain the word. Only five of them have it in the title, as well. More to the point, the first piece with this word was written in 1994. There is a piece from 1984 with it, but it actually appears in an addendum from 2013. The first year with more than a single piece of writing with the word is 2005, when it appears thrice. It appears twice in 2006 and 2012, and thrice again in 2013. Taking into account the addendum already mentioned, 2013 is the winner among year with four pieces containing the magical word. So far, only one piece from this year contains it. In other words, nirvana has occupied me for the last twenty years, but only in a cursory way. It gained in importance around my sixtieth birthday, but it has become a part of my daily life, as it were, only the last few years. And I would have bet that it goes all the way back to the beginning of my magnum opus. As it turns out, the word gains in prominence in my writings pari passu with yoga, which grabbed hold of me in 2005 and 2006. One possible reason why the word does not appear more often is that it has been replaced by another one in my mind: enlightenment. But that connection shall be addressed in yet another content analysis.