The Round of Rebirth (Saṃsāra)

Saṃsāra is the wheel of worldly existence — the beginningless round of birth, death, and rebirth through which beings keep passing, life after life. Driven by past action and by ignorance of one's true nature, it is the condition liberation aims to end. Almost every Hindu school takes saṃsāra for granted as the predicament and treats its own path as the way out.