Going beyond samsara

 Going beyond samsara is an ancient theme in India. The eternal haven beyond the flux of time is the goal of yogas, and explicit "other shore" imagery is found in the Shatapatha Brahmana text, the Shatarudriya, in which Rudra is said to be both on the other shore and this one, and in Buddhism: "Few amongst men are they who reach the farther shore, the other people here run up and down the bank."16 (Furthermore, recall that Jain tirthan-karas are great saints who make a “crossing over,” going beyond the stream of lives, rising ultimately to a level above the suffering.)