Core tenet of Hinduism
Action bears fruit: karma binds consequence to deed across lifetimes.
No judge required — cause and effect run through moral life as surely as through nature.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
Karma is impersonal cause and effect extended through moral life: no judge required, no appeal available, no act lost. Across lifetimes it explains present circumstance without arbitrary fate — and the Gita's refinement relocates the weight from the act to the attachment behind it.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
Your right is to the action alone, never to its fruits.
Bhagavad Gita 2:47Krishna to Arjuna — action without attachment.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Beings are reborn through six realms.
Buddhism
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Karma is a substance.
Jainism
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A human birth is the opening, and it closes.
Sikhism
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Poa — that a killing could improve the victim's next life.
Aum Shinrikyo
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The Pure Land receives the faithful.
Pure Land
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The ledger of merit and demerit.
Taoism · precept
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