saṃsāra
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
transmigration
in the texts
Bodhapañcadaśikā
Transmigration, defined in the poem as the state of non-recognition of the Self's true nature, a source of terror for the deluded.
that alone, indeed, is transmigration (saṃsāra (transmigration, here the non-recognition of the Self)), the terrifier of the deluded.
Paramārthasāra
Transmigration, the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth driven by false identification with the body and its adjuncts.
The notion 'I' with respect to the body, which is not the Self, makes for the bondage of transmigration.
So long as the {{puruṣa|conscious self}} here has [the sense of its own] being, through association with the body, the {{guṇa|qualities}}s, the instruments, and their objects, just so long does it appear as if bound in transmigration by the nooses of {{māyā|deluding power}}.
Bondage [arises] from association with these — as [an innocent man is bound] through consorting with thieves, though he is no thief.