Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata Codex

Samsara

संसार · saṃsāra

the cycle of birth, death and rebirth

The self passes from body to body as a person passes from childhood to youth to old age. What it meets in each life follows from what it has done. Even the highest heavens are within the cycle, and those who reach them return. The Gita treats this not as a comfort but as the condition from which freedom is sought.

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Bhagavad Gita 2.13 · Bhagavad Gita 2.22 · Bhagavad Gita 4.9 · Bhagavad Gita 8.16