   saá¹sÄra (sanskrit: à¤¸à¤à¤¸à¤¾à¤°) (in tibetan called khor ba, pronounced , meaning "continuous flow"), is the repeating cycle of birth, life and death (reincarnation) as well as one's actions and consequences in the past, present, and future in hinduism, buddhism, bon, jainism, taoismç®è®ºéæä¸ä½æçæ­»è§çå·®å¼ and sikhism. according to the view of these religions, a person's current life is only one of manyâstretching back before birth into past existences and reaching forward beyond death into future incarnations. during the course of each life the quality of the actions (karma) performed determine the future destiny of each person. the buddha taught that there is no beginning to this cycle but that it can be ended through perceiving reality. the goal of these religions is to realize this truth, the achievement of which (like ripening of a fruit) is moksha or liberation. in popular use, samsara [a westernized spelling] may refer to the world (in the sense of the various worldly activities which occupy ordinary, ignorant human beings), the various sufferings thereof; or (mistakenly) the unsettled and agitated mind through which reality is perceived. ==etymology and origin== saá¹sÄra is a sanskrit word, the literal meaning of which is "a wandering through" â in reference to the passage through many states of existence that is involved in the endless cycle of death and rebirth. the historical origins of a concept of a cycle of repeated reincarnation are obscure but the idea appears frequently in religious and philosophical texts in both india and ancient greece during the middle of the first millennium b.c.e.see mcevilley (2002) orphism, platonism, jainism and buddhism all discuss the transmigration of beings from one life to another. the concept of reincarnation is present in the early vedic texts such as the rig veda but some scholars speculate it to have originated from the shramana traditions. several scholars believe that reincarnation was adopted from this religious culture by brahmin orthodoxy, and brahmins first wrote down scriptures containing these ideas in the early (aitereya) upanishads.âthis suggests that the doctrine of transmigration is non-aryan and was accepted by non-vedics like ajivikism, jainism and buddhism. the indo-aryans may have borrowed the theory of re-birth after coming in contact with the aboriginal inhabitant
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