Samsara: The Cycle of Birth and Death

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Samsara: The Cycle of Birth and Death
Samsara: The Cycle of Birth and Death

Africa-Press – Mauritius. Everybody isbound by karma (deeds). And each one’s life is thus constituted of good and bad experiences depending on one’s own karma. Sanchitakarma is like the bank of karmas, good orbad,that one comes with at birth.

Prarabdha karma is a small set of Sanchitakarma because of whichwe have come intothis birth and the fruits of which are experienced in our current lifetime.

Based on one’s individual karma, the atma is caught in this vicious cycle of births and deaths and takes many different forms over several births. A Story from Chandhogya Upanishad

In Hinduism, all life goes through birth, life, death, and rebirth and this is known as the cycle of samsara. Samsara is full of horrors and has all kinds of sufferings – SamsarasAgaramghOramanantakleshabhAjanam.

Chandhogyaupanishad depicts samsara with the story of a tiger and a man. Once a man was chased by a tiger in the forest. While running he fell into a well and during the fall, he got hold of thebranch of a tree that was growing on the wall.

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