Saṃsāra | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Saṃsāra


00:01:13 1 Etymology and terminology
00:03:51 2 Definition and rationale
00:05:12 3 History
00:06:26 3.1 Punarmrityu: redeath
00:08:31 3.2 Evolution of ideas
00:09:47 4 iSamsāra/i in Hinduism
00:11:35 4.1 Differences within the Hindu traditions
00:13:00 5 iSaṃsāra/i in Jainism
00:16:11 6 iSamsara/i in Buddhism
00:18:34 7 iSaṅsāra/i in Sikhism
00:20:01 8 See also



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Saṃsāra () is a Sanskrit word that means "wandering" or "world", with the connotation of cyclic, circuitous change. It also refers to the concept of rebirth and "cyclicality of all life, matter, existence", a fundamental assumption of all Indian religions. In short, it is the cycle of death and rebirth. Saṃsāra is sometimes referred to with terms or phrases such as transmigration, karmic cycle, reincarnation, and "cycle of aimless drifting, wandering or mundane existence".The concept of Saṃsāra has roots in the Vedic literature, but the theory is not discussed there. It appears in developed form, but without mechanistic details, in the early Upanishads. The full exposition of the Saṃsāra doctrine is found in Sramanic religions such as Buddhism and Jainism, as well as various schools of Hindu philosophy after about the mid-1st millennium BCE. The Saṃsāra doctrine is tied to the Karma theory of Indian religions, and the liberation from Saṃsāra has been at the core of the spiritual quest of Indian traditions, as well as their internal disagreements. The liberation from Saṃsāra is called Moksha, Nirvana, Mukti or Kaivalya.