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səmˈsɑr əsam·sara

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. samsaranoun

    (Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth

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  1. samsaranoun

    In Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment.

  2. Etymology: From संसार.

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  1. Saṃsāra

    Saṃsāra (Devanagari: संसार) is a Pali/Sanskrit word that means "world". It is also the concept of rebirth and "cyclicality of all life, matter, existence", a fundamental belief of most Indian religions. Popularly, it is the cycle of death and rebirth. Saṃsāra is sometimes referred to with terms or phrases such as transmigration/reincarnation, karmic cycle, or Punarjanman, and "cycle of aimless drifting, wandering or mundane existence".The concept of saṃsāra has roots in the post-Vedic literature; the theory is not discussed in the Vedas themselves. It appears in developed form, but without mechanistic details, in the early Upanishads. The full exposition of the saṃsāra doctrine is found in Śramaṇic movements such as early 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 Hinduism, 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, Nirvāṇa, Mukti, or Kaivalya.

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  1. samsara

    Samsara, in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, is the cycle of death and rebirth. It is considered to be a process of reincarnation and re-death, repeating until one reaches a state of enlightenment and breaks free from the cycle, achieving Nirvana or Moksha. It's often viewed in terms of an individual's actions (karma) determining the condition of their next life. The concept reflects the belief in a connected, cyclical universe where everything is constantly changing and evolving.

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  1. Saṃsāra

    Saṃsāra or Sangsāra within Hinduism, Buddhism, Bön, Jainism, Yoga and Taoism. In Sikhism this concept is slightly different and looks at our actions in the present and consequences in the present. According to the view of these Asian religions our current life is only one of many—stretching 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 or end to this cycle. The goal of Asian religions is to escape this process, the achievement of which is called moksha. In popular use, Samsara [a westernized spelling] may refer to the world (in the sense of the various worldly activities which occupy ordinary human beings), the various sufferings thereof; or the unsettled and agitated mind through which reality is perceived. Etymology and origin Saṃsāra means "he flows into himself," to perpetually wander, to pass through states of existence.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of samsara in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of samsara in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of samsara in a Sentence

  1. Amit Ray:

    Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

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