Guest guest Posted July 28, 2008 Report Share Posted July 28, 2008 Namaste Hiroko, Yes samsara is very real. It signifies life on earth as a place of suffering and exile from one's true origins. One's karmic 'account balance' at the time of death is inherited via the state at which a person is reborn. Worldly life actions committed (for good or ill), will determine the future destiny of each being in the process of becoming (evolution or devolution). At death the underlying volitional impulses (samskaras) thus accrued and developed are carried and transmitted in a consciousness structure popularly known as the soul which, after an intermediate period of transmigration, forms the basis for a new biological structure that will result in rebirth and a new life. This process is considered to go on indefinitely until insight leads a person to practice renunciation of worldly pursuits and practices virtues. One of the most powerful mantras for Moksha (Liberation from life and death) is the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra which is Shiva's moksha mantra. Om Namah Shivaya , hiroppi122000 <no_reply wrote: > > Namaste > > Is it reall?? > > Samsara means " repeated birth or death, or transmigration. " As a > result of karma a person takes birth after birth, sometimes as a rich > person and sometimes as a poor person. According to the Padma Purana > there are 8,400,000 species of life and the fallen soul has to take > birth in everyone of them. After evolving through these millions of > birth, a soul (jiva) takes birth as a human. At that time they have > the chance to take to self-realization. If they do not, they are again > subjected to samsara. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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