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 cut all the grass, sticks, branches, and leaves in India
gather them together into one pile, and chop them each into four inch pieces
to represent his train of mothers, a piece for his mother, another for his mother’s mother and so on.
The grass, sticks, branches, and leaves of India would run out but not the representation of the mothers.
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.
