Concept
Karma
Overview
spiritual concept
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In all mythologies also, you find that the _devas_ were fond of the beautiful daughters of men. As a _deva_, the _jiva_ only reaps results of past actions, but makes no new Karma. Only man makes Karma. Karma means actions that will produce effects, also those effects, or results of action. When a man dies and becomes a _deva_ he has a period of pleasure, and during that time makes no fresh Karma; he simply enjoys…
Swami Vivekananda, Jnâna Yoga, Part II
Names Karma several times; states what Karma is.
We may well suppose, therefore, that the Brahmans, who first incorporated this idea into the religious conceptions of retribution, were influenced by the ideas current in popular belief, which, on their part, represented the last development of earlier totem conceptions. These ideas may also have been reinforced by the belief (not even yet entirely extinct) in soul animals, into which the psyche disappears at the…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Karma; the term itself is not named.
I am ignorant of Buddhism and speak under correction, and merely in order the better to describe my general point of view; but as I apprehend the Buddhistic doctrine of Karma, I agree in principle with that. All supernaturalists admit that facts are under the judgment of higher law; but for Buddhism as I interpret it, and for religion generally so far as it remains unweakened by transcendentalistic metaphysics, the…
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
Opens on Karma; names Karma.
Philosophers who discussed Karma
- Madhvacharya
- Udayana
- Je Tsongkhapa
- Heraclitus
- Gujarati language
- Dharmakirti
- Max Weber
- Nagarjuna
- Haribhadra
- Kundakunda
- Tattvartha Sutra
- Umaswati
- Buddhism
- The Buddha
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Jñānagarbha
- Rajasthani languages
Related ideas
- Tirthankara
- Moral agency
- Ramanuja
- Udayana
- Brahma Sutras
- Ishvara
- Gospel of Matthew
- Hinduism
- Indology
- Jain philosophy
- Wendy Doniger
- Kevala jnana
- Indian religions
- Vedas
- Jainism
- Last Judgment
- Soteriology
- Sarvastivada
- Gavin Flood
- Saṃsāra
- Moksha
- Immortality
- Adi Shankara
- Metaphysics
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Buddhist modernism.