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The Round of Rebirth (Saṃsāra)
The beginningless wheel of birth and death — the predicament every path aims to end.
Saṃsāra is the wheel of worldly existence — the beginningless round of birth, death, and rebirth through which beings keep passing, life after life. Driven by past action and by ignorance of one's true nature, it is the condition liberation aims to end. Almost every Hindu school takes saṃsāra for granted as the predicament and treats its own path as the way out.
How it traveled
- UpadeśasāhasrīKālaḍi (Kaladi) · 710explains
- VivekacūḍāmaṇiŚṛṅgeri (Sringeri) · 1400explains
- Aṣṭāvakra-gītāKāśī (Varanasi) · 1450applies
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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi 141↗explains
Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)
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Vivekacūḍāmaṇi 179↗explains
Vivekacūḍāmaṇi · Śaṅkara (traditionally ascribed; authorship doubted)
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Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 6,2.16↗explains
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad · Vedic Revelation (śruti)
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