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Subject: Karma
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anaghas 6.07.12 - 07:43pm
Karma (Sanskrit:
IPA: [krm] (
listen);[1]Pali: kamma)
in Indian religions is the
concept of action or
deed, understood as
that which causes the
entire cycle of cause
and effect (i.e., the
cycle called sasra)
originating in ancient
India and treated in the
Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and
Sikh religions.[2]
Origins
A concept of karma
(along with samsara
and moksha) may
originate in the
shramana tradition of
which Buddhism and
Jainism are
continuations. This
tradition influenced the
Brahmanic religion in the
early Vedantic
(Upanishadic)
movement of the 1st
millennium BC. This
worldview was adopted
from this religious
culture by Brahmin
orthodoxy, and
Brahmins wrote the
earliest recorded
scriptures containing
these ideas in the early
Upanishads. Until
recently, the scholarly
consensus was that
reincarnation is absent
from the earliest strata
of Brahminical literature.
However, a new
translation of two
stanzas of the Rig Veda
indicate that the
Brahmins may have had
the idea, common
among small-scale
societies around the
world, that an individual
cycles back and forth
between the earth and
a heavenly realm of
ancestors. In this
worldview, m
behavior has no
influence on rebirth. The
idea that the m
quality of one's actions
influences one's rebirth
is absent from India
until the period of the
shramana religions, and
the Brahmins appear to
have adopted this idea
from other religious
groups *
