The objective world; sea of change; cycle of birth and death; transmigration. (Glossary for the Vahinis)

To be born again and again,to die again and again, to lie diormant in the womb of the mother before every birth, is an endless cycle of Samsara. Please, Oh God! By your grace, quickly get me out of this troublesome cycle. (SSS Vol.3, p.172)

All this flux, this samsara is due to Ajnana; bondage is the result. So, when the A Jnana is destroyed, then the bonds loosen and liberation is attained. The Ajnana which is the seed out of which samsara sprouts, can be destroyed only by Brahma jnana. There is no other method.

(UV, p. 65)

The Ajnana or false knowledge can be destroyed only when one knows the Atma Principle. When the false knowledge disappears, the sorrow produced by one’s involvement in the ups and downs of Samsara or the World of change, also gets destroyed. (Sutra Vahini, p. 3)

Samsara (worldly life) is a vast ocean. Desires are like the waves. Our feelings constitute the depth of the ocean. In this deep ocean there are crocodiles, whales and sharks in the form of attachments and hatred. It is not easy for ordinary beings to cross this ocean. The gopikas declared that only with the help of the Divine name can people save themselves. (SSS Vol.23)

There is a unique feature of the Bharatiya mental equipment. Until the individualised soul gets liberated from the individualisation and merges in the Universal, thus attaining moksha or liberation, it has to encase itself in one body after another, and go through the process called living. This idea is held by no other people. This is the Samsara idea, which the ancient texts or Shastras of India reveal and propagate. Samsara means ‘the movement into one form after another.’ All the different schools and sects among the Bharatiyas accept this fact that the Atma (apparently individualised) is eternal and incapable of being affected by change. (BS, p.14)

Man must be yoked to Samsara and broken; that is the training, which will teach that the world is unreal; no amount of lectures will make you believe it is a snake unless you actually experience it. Touch fire and get the sensation of burning; there is nothing like it to teach you that fire is to be avoided, unless you touch it, you will be aware only of its light. It is light and heat both; just as this world is both true and false; that is to say unreal. (TDP, pp.351-352)

For travellers in the boat of life on the ocean of samsara, which is best with many disturbances and obstacles, the flame of spirituality is the guiding and guarding light. For people who do not understand this truth, life becomes a chain of ceaseless troubles. (SSSDK, p.197)

There is no happiness in the Samsara (birth-life-death cycle). We all know about this. But, we are living with the hope that there is some happiness in this Samsara. The truth, however, is different. The world is full of sorrow and the body, full of diseases. The Samsara is like a bed, full of bugs. Is there anyone who is enjoying should sleep in this bed? Perhaps none. That is why; a Poet once described this, situation with a touch of humour in a poem thus:

‘Lord Shiva living in Kailasa,

The Sun and Moon staying in the sky,

Lord Vishnu reclining in the Sea,

Is it not for escaping from bed of bugs!’

Lord Shiva is living in Kailasa with the hope that bugs cannot reach the icy mountains. Similarly, the Sun and Moon are staying so high in sky with hope that the bugs cannot reach that height. Lord Vishnu has chosen the sea as His Abode with the hope the bugs cannot get into water. What does this simply imply? It means these Gods are living beyond the Samsara transcending the gunas (attributes) and are engaged in pure and selfless to humanity. That is the underlying meaning one has to keep in mind. (M&M p. 18)