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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is Hindu word for the constant cycle of birth, death, and rebirth?
A
Dharma
B
Karma
C
Shiva
D
Samsara
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -saṃsāra, a fundamental concept in all Indian religions, is linked to the karma theory and refers to the belief that all living beings cyclically go through births and rebirths.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.

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