KARMA AND FREEWILL : A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HINDUISM, BUDDHISM AND JAINISM

The doctrine of Karma is one of the points of agreement among the three main religions of ancient India -Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism,' even though the concept operates in somewhat different ways in the three religions.² A superficial understanding of the doctrine of Karma leads to its identification with fatalism³ on the basis of the

Transcribed from the prepared edition. This is the beginning of the article, not a summary — open the PDF to read it in full.

अरविन्द शर्मा दिखाते हैं कि हिन्दू, बौद्ध तथा जैन — तीनों परम्पराएँ कर्म के साथ स्वतन्त्र इच्छा का समन्वय भिन्न-भिन्न ढंग से करती हैं। हिन्दू आचार्य प्रारब्ध को सञ्चित और आगामी से पृथक् करते हैं, अथवा प्रत्यक्ष फल और संस्कारजन्य प्रवृत्ति में भेद करते हैं; सिद्धान्त नहीं, प्रणाली भिन्न है। Sharma compares how Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism each reconcile karma with free will. Hindu thinkers separate prarabdha from sancita and agami, or distinguish a deed's direct results from the tendencies it leaves; he sets the Buddhist and Jain solutions beside that, finding the modalities differ rather than the doctrine.

Written by the archive’s cataloguers, not by the author.