Core tenet of Hinduism
The self is reborn until liberation.
Samsara is the default condition; moksha — release — is the shared goal the schools define differently.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Samsara is the default engine: the self migrates through bodies as through garments, driven by karma and craving. Every Indian tradition on this site — Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh — shares the wheel; they differ on what escapes it, and how, and whether anything rides it at all.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
As a person discards worn-out garments and takes new ones, so the embodied self discards worn-out bodies and enters new ones.
Bhagavad Gita 2:22
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
The Transit.
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Suffering has a cause, and therefore an end.
Buddhism
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The soul is liberated by its own effort.
Jainism
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The kingdom has arrived and has not arrived.
Christianity
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A human birth is the opening, and it closes.
Sikhism
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Knowledge liberates.
Advaita Vedānta
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