2007-08-01 00:02:52 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
SAMASKARA - the endless round of birth, death, and rebirth to which all conditioned beings are subject. Samsara is conceived as having no perceptible beginning or end. The particulars of an individual's wanderings in samsara are determined by karma. In Hinduism, moksha is release from samsara.
In Hinduism, it is avidya, or ignorance, of one's true self, that leads to ego-consciousness of the body and the phenomenal world. This grounds one in desire and the perpetual chain of karma and reincarnation. The state of illusion is known as Maya.
Hinduism has many terms for the state of liberation like moksha, mukti, nirvana, and mahasamadhi.
The Hindu Yoga traditions hold various beliefs. Moksha may be achieved by love of Ishwar/God, by psycho-physical meditation (Raja Yoga), by discrimination of what is real and unreal through intense contemplation (Jnana Yoga) and through Karma Yoga, the path of selfless action that subverts the ego and enforces understanding of the unity of all. Advaita Vedanta, which heavily influenced Hindu Yoga, believes that Brahman, the ultimate Truth-Consciousness-Bliss, is the infinite, impersonal reality (as contrasted to the Buddhist concept of shunyata) and that through realization of it, all temporal states like deities, the cosmos and samsara itself are revealed to be nothing but manifestations of Brahman.-
2007-08-01 05:41:36 · answer #1 · answered by Jayaraman 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You would be very fortunate to succeed in doing so deliberately. You are only freed from Samsara upon attaining Enlightenment, after, through reincarnation, experiencing all facets of life. This wisdom is a passive experience, you cannnot force, you cannot be impatient, you cannot desire to attain it for competition's sake. It can only be attained very gradually, through time. You do not liberate yourself from samsara, you simply slip out of it.
2007-08-01 02:08:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This very question was raised by Yudhishtira to Bhishma. The answer given by Bhishma is: that mankind will be free from all sorrows by chanting the Vishnu Sahasranāma which are the thousand names of the All-Pervading Supreme Being who is master of all the worlds, supreme over the Devas and who is non-different from Brahman.
2007-08-01 01:46:25 · answer #3 · answered by liberlike 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good Question. Follow the teaching of the Buddha. Meditate
www.meditationthai.org
2007-08-01 01:11:06 · answer #4 · answered by Bright 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-08-01 02:26:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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Meditate grasshopper. try Raja Yoga
2007-08-01 00:08:36 · answer #6 · answered by sahajrob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋