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‖ samsara Indian Philos.|samˈsaːra|
Also sangsara.
[Skr. saṃsāra, a wandering through, f. sam prefix expressing completeness + sṛ to run, glide, move.]
The endless cycle of death and rebirth to which life in the material world is bound; also attrib. Hence samˈsaric a.
1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 289/1 The notion of saṃsâra has become an axiom, a universally conceded principle of Indian philosophy. 1913J. N. Farquhar Crown of Hinduism v. 213 All souls, whether living as gods, demons, men, animals, or plants, are afloat on the stream of transmigration (saṁsāra). 1928W. Y. Evans-Wentz Tibet's Great Yogi p. xvi, The golden fish..symbolizes sentient beings immersed in the Ocean of Sangsaric (or Worldly) Existence. 1930S. N. Dasgupta Yoga Philos. 67 The metaphysics of the saṃsāra cycle in connection with sorrow, origination, disease, rebirth. 1935W. Y. Evans-Wentz Tibetan Yoga 16 The Sangsāra, or external universe, is a psycho-physical compound of mind; matter, as we see it, being crystallized mental energy. 1963‘Mayananda’ Tarot for Today xi. 140 It [sc. Stellar Power] can be distributed and assimilated by the Earth and Solar System, generally, thus producing all the minutiæ of Samsaric detail. 1966R. F. C. Hull tr. Jung's Ulysses in Coll. Wks. XV. 127 Ulysses..is for Joyce..the higher self who returns to his divine home after blind entanglement in samsara. 1977L. A. Govinda Creative Meditation i x. 43 The basic qualities of human individuality binding us to our worldly existence (samsāra) are at the same time the means of liberation and enlightenment. |