Saṃsāra has no known beginnings nor known ends.
when beings, hindered by ignorance, fettered by craving, drifting, transmigrating; The beginnings and the ends are not seen.
Suppose a person was to make the whole earth into clay balls the size of jujube seeds to represent his train of fathers - one for his father, another for his father’s father and so on, The great earth would run out, but not the representation of the fathers,
Why is that ?
Because saṃsāra has no known beginnings nor known ends.
When beings, hindered by ignorance, fettered by craving, drifting, transmigrating; The beginnings and the ends are not seen.
Long have you experienced sufferings, agony, destruction; Have been adding to this earth, swelling the cemeteries.
This is enough to become disillusioned with all existence (sankhara), enough to be disenchanted, enough to be liberated.
