first idea of the wheel of samsara arose before the advent of Buddhism and its origins takes pozdnevediyskom Brahmanism.Buddhists have borrowed this concept, but they explained to him the way we understand it now.
wheel of samsara - a continual cycle of birth and death.This constant formation and change, which is controlled by the master of death.Circle Samsara shows us all phases of human life.At the center of the circle are the creation of three, each of which has its own shortcomings: a pig - a symbol of greed and ignorance;Rooster - a symbol of carnal passion;snake - a symbol of hatred.All these qualities are bound man to the illusory life and forced existence.At the roundabout, adjacent to the center, to the left depicts the monks and those lay people who clean their lives deserve a successful transformation and therefore move up.On the right side - naked sinful people who are destined to a miserable rebirth.
next circle is divided into six parts.All of them depict the possible fate of man after his death.At the top - the sky;left - the ordinary people;Right - the gods and the Titans;in the lower right half - poor spirits who suffer from sensuality;in the left lower half - the animal kingdom;but in the lower part - cold and hot hell.Everywhere there is certainly Buddha who helps everyone to come to the rescue of his soul.The most recent outer circle consists of twelve paintings that depict the life of a man on the steps by which he moves again to death.Each painting has its own symbols.We list the values in a clockwise direction - ignorance, the driving force, consciousness, form, senses, touching, feeling, craving, attachment, becoming, birth, old age and death.
In another wheel of samsara called bhavachakra.Otherwise, it can still be called a wheel of existence.It keeps the wheel lord of death.All are closely interconnected - people clinging to life, generate karma and have come through it to a new cycle of existence.
wheel of karma - it is a constant movement of the path laid by their own actions.Decides the fate of man lord of death - god Yama.It shall reach its decision by karma man accumulated during his life, and often it turns out that a very bad karma, and all sinners are destined to go through a terrible judgment.
generalize all of the above.Wheel of samsara - the full cycle of life, reflecting his passion, sin, life stage, karma and reincarnation.Interpreting the wheel of samsara, we have repeatedly mentioned about karma.What is karma?It is any act of man, which inevitably carries with it certain consequences.By the actions could be considered not only a physical act, but the spoken words, and even thoughts.The total aggregate of these physical, mental and verbal acts done in my life, and determines the nature of the next birth, life and death.Karma can be good or bad, that is, it can lead to happy or unhappy birth in the next reincarnation.
