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Saṃsāra (Devanagari: संसार) means "wandering", [1] [2] as well as "world" wherein the term connotes "cyclic change". [3] Saṃsāra, a fundamental concept in all Indian religions, is linked to the karma theory and refers to the belief that all living beings cyclically go through births and rebirths.
Saṃsāra (in Sanskrit and Pali) in Buddhism is the beginningless cycle of repeated birth, mundane existence and dying again. [1] Samsara is considered to be suffering (Skt. duḥkha; P. dukkha), or generally unsatisfactory and painful. [2]
Samsara All beings have deeply entrenched samyojana (fetters, chains or bounds), that is, the sankharas ("formations"), kleshas (unwholesome mental states), including the three poisons , and āsavas ("influx, canker"), that perpetuate sa ṃ sāra , the repeated cycle of becoming and rebirth .
Saṃsāra (transmigration)(Sanskrit: संसार, IAST: saṃsāra) in Jain philosophy, refers to the worldly life characterized by continuous rebirths and reincarnations in various realms of existence.
In response to the question since when beings wander within samsara (i.e. the Six Paths), the Buddha answered that the starting point could not be identified nor understood. One conclusion that is certain, is that we have wandered already for aeons, however, when the Buddha was asked how long an aeon is, he gave a smile.
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Rajbali Pandey compares the Upanayana rite of passage to Baptism in Christianity where the person is born again unto spiritual knowledge, in addition to it being the ancient Indian rite of passage for the start of formal education of writing, numbers, reading, Vedangas, arts and other skills. [71]
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