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Each person “can choose to follow the tendency he has formed or to struggle against it,”[1] as the Vedanta Society, an organization promoting Hinduism in the West, explains. “Karma does not constitute determinism,” we read in The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion. “The deeds do indeed determine the manner of rebirth but not the actions of the reborn individual—karma provides the situation, not the response to the situation.”[2]

  1. Brahmacharini Usha, comp., A Ramakrishna-Vedanta Wordbook (Hollywood, Calif.: Vedanta Press, 1962), s.v. “karma.”
  2. The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1989), s.v. “karma.”