different between samsara vs moksha

English

Alternative forms

• sa?s?ra

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ????? (sa?s?ra).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?m?s???/

Noun

samsara (countable and uncountable, plural samsaras)

1. (philosophy, religion) In Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest enlightenment.
   • 1957, S. Radhakrishnan and C. A. Moore (eds.), A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy, Princeton Univ. Press, page 38:

     Until we are released from the law of karma and reach moksha or deliverance, we will be in samsara or the time process.

Translations

See also

• reincarnation
• metempsychosis
• transmigration

References

• The Upanishads, abridged, translated and edited by Swami Nikhilananda, Harper Torchbooks, 1963, page 379.

Further reading

• samsara at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• asramas, assamar, samaras

Polish

Alternative forms

• sansara

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ????? (sa?s?ra).

Noun

samsara f

1. (philosophy, religion) samsara

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ????? (sa?s?ra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sams?ra/
• Hyphenation: sam?sa?ra

Noun

samsàra f (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. (uncountable) samsara

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ????? (mok?a, “liberation”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??k??/

Noun

moksha (uncountable)

1. In Indian philosophy and theology, the final liberation of the soul or consciousness from samsara and the bringing to an end of all the suffering involved in being subject to the cycle of reincarnation.

   Coordinate term: dharma

   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 5:

     The more merit you earn, the more you are likely to abridge the number of reincarnations you have to go through to reach the kind of enlightened state which gets you to moksha.

Italian

Noun

moksha m (uncountable)

1. Moksha (language)

Portuguese

Noun

moksha m (uncountable)

1. Moksha (language)

Spanish

Noun

moksha m (uncountable)

1. Moksha language