apurva
अपूर्व apūrvaThe unseen potency generated by a correctly performed yajna that links the act to its later fruit as karma does, without need of a deity.
Where this term appears
- The Shatkarma: The Six Acts of Tantric Magic Lineages
…ernal, and the rite produces its fruit through an unseen potency, the apurva , that follows automatically from correct performance, with or without a listening god.
- What is Mimamsa? Philosophy
The mechanism it proposes is apurva , literally "the unprecedented," the not-before — a supersensible potency generated by the correct performance of the ritual.
- What holds the charge Treatise
How does a completed sacrifice reach across that span to deliver a reward long afterward? The Mimamsa answer was a single coined concept: apurva .
- Who runs the ledger, and why the innocent suffer Treatise
The moral law runs itself through apurva , the automatic potency of the deed, and the question of God's justice never arises, because God is not on the books.
- What 'karma' doesn't mean Journal
An act generates apurva , an unseen potency that simply delivers its own result later, automatically, the way a planted seed becomes a tree with no one supervising the soil.