karma
idea · 4 works · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages
action · adverse fate · daiva · fruit of one's deeds · fruit of the act · karmavāsanā · motion · the fruit of karma · the fruits of one's own actions
spoken of as
1 expressionFate and the fruits of past deeds“karma”1 mention
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
"All this has come upon me through the working of adverse fate and through past misdeeds;
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The doctrine that every act, good or evil, returns its fruit to its doer, illustrated by Daśaratha's confession.
greedy at the sight of blossoms, he repents when the fruit-time comes.
having abandoned Rāma when the fruit-time came, I now repent in my foolishness.
'O auspicious one, whatever a person does — whether good or evil — that very fruit born of the act he himself receives, O blessed one.
Paramārthasāra
Action and its ripening fruit, whose accumulation binds the transmigrating self and whose destruction through knowledge ends birth.
The {{karma|action and its ripening}} done by another (i.
From the destruction of the seed which is the fruit of action follows the destruction of birth — herein is no doubt.
Who is it that, by [endless] goings and comings here, experiences {{karma|action and its ripening fruit}} that yields fruit good and ill?
Tarkasaṃgraha
Third category; five-fold movement (throwing up/down, contraction, expansion, going) residing in earth-group substances and mind.
karma (Motion) is of the nature of movement.
Throwing upward, throwing downward, contraction, expansion, and going — these are the five motions.
dravya (substance), guṇa (quality), karma (motion/action), sāmānya (universal), viśeṣa (ultimate particularity), samavāya (inherence), and abhāva (absence) — these are the seven padārtha (categories, knowables).
Vrhaspatitattva
The doctrine that action's fruit is never lost, manifesting in this life and the next, driving the cycle of birth through vāsanā and rāga.
The truth of the fruit of karma > is indeed endowed with existence, both here and in the hereafter.
It is the *vāsanā* that gives rise to *rāga*, and that is why there is a desire for action, a delight in every kind of *karmavāsanā*.