It literally means "wandering about" and means the succession of states that a being passes through in the circuit of worldly existence. It is often translated as "metempsychosis", and it is wrong, more correctly with "transmigration", bearing in mind that there is no turning back. Evolution goes up and never returns down. In Tibetan, the equivalent term is "khorba". Samsara is made up of the forms that are created in the manifested world, as well as the laws that govern them. It is the opposite of "moksha", Liberation, which is obtained at the end of an indefinite life-death-rebirth succession. In all subsequent rebirths, the individual soul chooses an existence corresponding to the predispositions cultivated with acts, words, thoughts, in the life previously lived. Existence in Samsara is considered an unworthy and insignificant way of being. The continuous concentration of the mind and the experience of the Supreme Self, of Shiva, hidden in the heart, release man from samsara, even before his physical death.
