In the Western world samsara means?

During cremation, the smoke from the cremation pyre rises up into the sky, and there the soul can move in three different directions. In Sanskrit, in the language of ancient India, this phenomenon is called Samsara. The Word Samsara means, literally, to wander from one life to the next, a possibility that would allow us to come back into this world and experience, again, something that we really missed in this life.