WORLD RELIGIONS

RELIGIONS

HINDUISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The constant cycle of death and re-birth is called
A
samsara
B
dharma
C
moksha
D
karma
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Samsara in Hinduism is the name for the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. The essence of a person, the atman, is born into a human body. Atman is itself a part of Brahman, that divine reality. Throughout their life, its actions in bodily form build its karma, on which it will be judged at death.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is samsara? The Sanskrit term samsara translates as “wandering through, ‘’ or “aimless wandering.” Samsara is the concept of reincarnation, a cyclic existence where our spirit or individual soul is trapped in an endless wheel of life, death and rebirth.

Detailed explanation-3: -Samsara is a Sanskrit word that refers to the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, to the passing of the soul from one life to another. As the soul transitions between these lives, the next incarnation is informed by the deeds of the previous life. This is the Hindu belief of the concept of karma.

Detailed explanation-4: -This symbol represents the endless cycle of Samsara, (reincarnation). Rebirth might sound like a good thing but actually, Hindus believe that going around and around in the cycle of samsara is keeping humans souls (atman) trapped in the material world away from the sublime spiritual one . Meaning, ‘again in flesh’.

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