The "cyclicity of all life, matter, and existence" is a fundamental belief of most Indian religions.Flood, Gavin D. (1996), An Introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge University Press The concept of saṃsāra has roots in the post-Vedic literature; the theory is not discussed in the Vedas themselves.A.M. Boyer: Etude sur l'origine de la doctrine du samsara. Journal Asiatique, (1901), Volume 9, Issue 18, S. 451–53, 459–68Yuvraj Krishan: . Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1997, It appears in developed form, but without mechanistic details, in the early Upanishads. The full exposition of the saṃsāra doctrine is found in early Buddhism and Jainism, as well as in various schools of Hindu philosophy. The saṃsāra doctrine is tied to the karma theory of Hinduism, and the liberation from saṃsāra has been at the core of the spiritual quest of Indian traditions, as well as their internal disagreements. The liberation from saṃsāra is called Moksha, Nirvāṇa, Mukti, or Kaivalya.
The "cyclicity of all life matter, and existence" is a fundamental belief of most Indian religions.Flood, Gavin D. (1996), An Introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge University Press The concept of saṃsāra has roots in the post-Vedic literature; the theory is not discussed in the Vedas themselves.A.M. Boyer: Etude sur l'origine de la doctrine du samsara. Journal Asiatique, (1901), Volume 9, Issue 18, S. 451–53, 459–68Yuvraj Krishan: . Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1997, It appears in developed form, but without mechanistic details, in the early Upanishads. The full exposition of the saṃsāra doctrine is found in early Buddhism and Jainism, as well as in various schools of Hindu philosophy. The saṃsāra doctrine is tied to the karma theory of Hinduism, and the liberation from saṃsāra has been at the core of the spiritual quest of Indian traditions, as well as their internal disagreements The liberation from saṃsāra is called Moksha Nirvāṇa, Mukti, or Kaivalya.