Translations:Karma/21/en
In Hinduism the Sanskrit word karma (originally meaning act, action, work or deed) evolved to mean the actions that bind the soul to the world of existence. “Just as a farmer plants a certain kind of seed and gets a certain crop, so it is with good and bad deeds,” says the Mahabharata,[1] a Hindu epic. Because we have sown both good and evil, we must return to reap the crop.
- ↑ Mahabharata 13.6.6, in Christopher Chapple, Karma and Creativity (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986), p. 96.