Sorry that the info below is not a cohesive statement, but hopefully it helps to clarify the base ideas behind this song. Essentially it's about reincarnation or samsara, being reborn after your merit has run out. The brahman's lament, or expression of sorrow, is for the death and soon to be rebirth of the person still stuck in the cycle, who has again failed to truly comprehend the identity of his or her soul.
The meaning of Samsara:
Samsara means a circuit of living where one repeats previous states, from one body to another, rebirth, growth, decay and redeath.
Contrasted with the concept of Moksha (nirvana), which refers to liberation from this cycle of aimless wandering
Some religions believe that reincarnation is cyclic and endless Samsara, unless one gains spiritual insights that ends this cycle, leading to liberation. They introduce the idea of the afterlife in heaven or hell in proportion to one's merit, and when this runs out, one returns and is reborn. This idea appears in ancient and medieval texts as the cycle of life, death, rebirth and redeath - such as sections 6:31 of the Mahabharata and section 6.10 of Devi Bhagavata Purana.
Excerpt from Devi Bhagavata Purana on Samsara and the Brahman:
[book 7] ".... The Goddess explains she is the Brahman that created the world, asserting the Advaita premise that spiritual liberation occurs when one fully comprehends the identity of one's soul and the Brahman. This knowledge, asserts the Goddess, comes from detaching self from the world and meditating on one's own soul"
Correction in the first paragraph, it should say: Essentially it's about reincarnation or samsara, being reborn when their time in the afterlife runs out, which is proportional to one's merit.
Correction in the first paragraph, it should say: Essentially it's about reincarnation or samsara, being reborn when their time in the afterlife runs out, which is proportional to one's merit.
Sorry that the info below is not a cohesive statement, but hopefully it helps to clarify the base ideas behind this song. Essentially it's about reincarnation or samsara, being reborn after your merit has run out. The brahman's lament, or expression of sorrow, is for the death and soon to be rebirth of the person still stuck in the cycle, who has again failed to truly comprehend the identity of his or her soul.
The meaning of Samsara:
Excerpt from Devi Bhagavata Purana on Samsara and the Brahman: [book 7] ".... The Goddess explains she is the Brahman that created the world, asserting the Advaita premise that spiritual liberation occurs when one fully comprehends the identity of one's soul and the Brahman. This knowledge, asserts the Goddess, comes from detaching self from the world and meditating on one's own soul"
Correction in the first paragraph, it should say: Essentially it's about reincarnation or samsara, being reborn when their time in the afterlife runs out, which is proportional to one's merit.
Correction in the first paragraph, it should say: Essentially it's about reincarnation or samsara, being reborn when their time in the afterlife runs out, which is proportional to one's merit.