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sanchita

सञ्चित sanchita

The accumulated store of past karma not yet experienced.

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  • Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials

    The tradition speaks of three kinds of karma: sanchita , the whole accumulated store from past lives; prarabdha , the portion that has ripened and is being lived out as the present life; and agami , the fresh k…

  • Burning the seed Treatise

    The store of sanchita karma, the granary of unripened deeds accumulated across beginningless time, is not paid off deed by deed on this account.

  • The four movements Treatise

    The store has four movements. Sanchita karma is the accumulated whole.

  • What remains Treatise

    Of the four movements of karma, three can be dealt with by realization. The stored quiver of sanchita is burned.

  • What 'karma' doesn't mean Journal

    Karma is the Sanskrit word for action, from the root kr, to do or make. In the classical texts it names a law of natural moral causation: every action leaves a…

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