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[Alexandr Korol]

When a person loses this state — or rather, doesn’t even possess it. That is, when they don’t have this state, and instead they are in one of the multiverses, if we refer to the third volume, meaning when a person is completely absorbed in something, whether in pleasure or, on the contrary, in suffering, or in something else. So, any of these feelings, emotions that cloud a person’s mind to the point they forget where they are, who they are, and why — that is samsara, and they must exit it and sober themselves up. And as I see it, the main four foundations of samsara are these four Spirits, these four worlds, from which a person must be freed in order to awaken.

“The teaching of samsara first appears in the Upanishads (Chandogya, Brihadaranyaka). In Hinduism, the reason for the soul’s (jiva’s) presence in the world of samsara is considered to be avidya (ignorance), which manifests in the individual’s unawareness of their true nature, their true “Self,” and in identifying themselves with the perishable material body and the illusory world of maya. This identification keeps the jiva in the chains of sensory pleasures, forcing it to reincarnate and take on new bodies again and again in the cycle of samsara.

The stage of final liberation from the cycle of samsara is called differently in Hinduism: moksha, mukti, nirvana, or mahasamadhi.
In the traditions of yoga, several paths to liberation from the cycle of samsara and the attainment of moksha are described. Moksha can be attained through love for Ishvara/God (see bhakti and bhakti yoga), through meditation (raja yoga), by learning to distinguish reality from illusion through philosophical analysis (jnana yoga), or through the proper performance of prescribed actions without attachment to their results.

In the philosophical school of Samkhya — one of the six orthodox schools in Hindu philosophy — the existence of two bodies is accepted: the gross material body, called sthula, and the subtle material body, which is not destroyed after the death of the gross one and passes into the next physical body received by the individual in the cycle of samsara. The subtle material body consists of three elements: