karma
कर्म karmaAction, and the principle that actions bear fruit. In the ritual Veda it is the sacrificial act (the karma-kanda); in later thought it is the moral law by which deeds shape future experience.
Where this term appears
- Charvaka: the Indian materialists Philosophy
Among the nastika schools it was the most thoroughgoing, since the Buddhists and Jains, while rejecting the Vedas, kept rebirth, karma, and liberation.
- Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials
Dharma. Karma.
- Hinduism and Buddhism: the difference Essentials
What they share Both traditions take for granted a moral universe governed by karma : actions carry consequences, good and bad, that shape the future across lives, this life and the ones to come.
- The caste system: what Hinduism says Essentials
…gavad Gita 4.13, where Krishna says: chaturvarnyam maya srishtam guna-karma-vibhagashah , "the fourfold order was created by me according to guna and karma ," that is, according to quality and action.
- What happens after death in Hinduism? Essentials
Karma: what shapes the next life If the self puts on a new body, which body, and why?
- Why do Hindus cremate their dead? Essentials
The self needs to move on, into a new life carried by karma, or, for the rare and ripe, out of the cycle altogether into moksha.
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
It is a karma-darshana , a way of seeing the ripening of prarabdha karma , that portion of past action which has begun to bear fruit in this life, a doctrine we set out in our account of karma and rebirth.
- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
— Bhagavad Gītā 2.47 This is karma yoga , the discipline of action, and its inner key is nishkama karma , desireless action: you renounce the craving for the fruit, you do not renounce the work.