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5 days ago · Hinduism - Karma, Samsara, Moksha: Hindus generally accept the doctrine of transmigration and rebirth and the complementary belief in karma. The whole process of rebirth, called samsara, is cyclic, with no clear beginning or end, and encompasses lives of perpetual, serial attachments.
- Vaishnavism, Shaivism
Hinduism - Vaishnavism, Shaivism: Vaishnavism is the worship...
- Brahmanas, Aranyakas, Vedas
Hinduism - Brahmanas, Aranyakas, Vedas: Attached to each...
- Hinduism
Hinduism - Beliefs, Practices, & History: Hindu relations...
- Sacred Times, Festivals
Hinduism - Sacred Times, Festivals: Hindu festivals are...
- Practice
Hinduism - Rituals, Beliefs, Traditions: The second strand...
- Pilgrimage
Hinduism - Pilgrimage, Rituals, Beliefs: Pilgrimage in...
- Castes
Hinduism - Caste System, Dharma, Varna: The origin of the...
- The Bhagavadgita
Hinduism - Bhagavadgita, Dharma, Karma: The Bhagavadgita...
- Vaishnavism, Shaivism
3 days ago · In Hinduism, the concept of karma plays a significant role in understanding the interconnection between past deeds and present life. Karma is a fundamental principle that governs the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, known as samsara.
3 days ago · Death - Hinduism, Reincarnation, Karma: Among the collected hymns of the Rigveda (which may date from 1500 bc and probably constitute the earliest known book in the world), there is a “Song of Creation.” “Death was not there,” it states, “nor was there aught immortal.”
5 days ago · Hinduism - Bhagavadgita, Dharma, Karma: The Bhagavadgita (“Song of God”) is an influential Indian religious text. In quasi-dialogue form, it is relatively brief, consisting of 700 verses divided into 18 chapters.
3 days ago · Hindu philosophy or Vedic philosophy is the set of Indian philosophical systems that developed in tandem with the religion of Hinduism during the iron and classical ages of India.
1 day ago · In Jainism, for example, Karma is based on materialist element philosophy, where Karma is the fruit of one's action conceived as material particles which stick to a soul and keep it away from natural omniscience. The Buddha conceived Karma as a chain of causality leading to attachment of the material world and hence to rebirth.
2 days ago · This has inspired later Hindu scholars such as Adi Shankara to classify each Veda into karma-kanda (कर्म खण्ड, action/sacrificial ritual-related sections, the Samhitas and Brahmanas); and jnana-kanda (ज्ञान खण्ड, knowledge/spirituality-related sections, mainly the Upanishads').
