"But it's typical of the American musical's hymn to individualism that the show ultimately becomes about the self-realisation of the shy guy who is told: "Be yourself and through the darkness you'll prevail.""
"Or was he writing a study in female self-realisation?"
"Nirvana is where the twofold passions have subsided and the twofold hindrances are cleared away and the twofold egolessness is patiently accepted; is where, by the attainment of the “turning-about” in the deepest seat of consciousness, self-realisation of Noble Wisdom is fully entered into, – that is the Nirvana of the Tathagatas."