| They accept the religion's basic concepts of dharma, samsara, karma, and ahimsa. |
| When enough good karma is accumulated over many lifetimes, the jiva-atman is released from this eternal cycle of samsara and attains moksha. |
| They are not like the inhabitants of the realm of the gods, who are still within samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth. |
| Realizing the intensity of suffering of all living beings in samsara, bodhisattvas have developed limitless compassion and love. |
| A major theme that emerges in the later sanatani tradition is that man, being born into samsara, has to work through samsara towards moksha. |
| The convictions that samsara is nirvana and that atman is Brahman are two distinctive religious conclusions born of such insight. |
