to walk, wander
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Samsara
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Sanskrit | |
| lexeme 1 | sṛ | |
| lexeme 2 | saṃsāra | |
| meaning 1 | to to run, flow, speed, glide, move, go | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | Samsara (course, passage, passing through a succession of states, circuit of mundane existence, transmigration, metempsychosis, the world, secular life, worldly illusion) | |
| reference | MW: 1119, 1244 | |
| comment | Also Saṃsṛ 'to go round, revolve, pass through a succession of states, to go towards or obtain, moving in a circuit'. A conceptual form from this root appears in ancient texts as Saṃsaraṇa, which means 'going around through a succession of states, birth, rebirth of living beings and the world'. | |
In Hindu philosophy, Buddhism and Jainism Saṃsāra is a 'passage through successive states of mundane existence', a transmigration, metempsychosis, a circuit of living where one repeats previous states, from one body to another, a worldly life of constant change, that is rebirth, growth, decay and redeath. The concept is then contrasted with the concept of moksha, also known as mukti, nirvana, nibbana or kaivalya, which refers to liberation from this cycle of aimless wandering.