Karma
Karma is frequently reduced in popular usage to a vague notion of cosmic justice. The actual philosophical concept is both more precise and more demanding: karma refers to the structured causal relationship between action, intention, and consequence across multiple lifetimes, embedded within a cosmological order that does not require a personal deity to administer it. It has profound implications for how Hindu civilization has understood history (civilizations accumulate karma), ethics (action binds the actor regardless of outcome), and liberation (moksha as the cessation of karmic accumulation). The contrast between the karma-based metaphysics of multiple lives and the Abrahamic single-life framework produces two entirely different civilizational orientations toward time, suffering, justice, and the purpose of human existence — a distinction Bodha explores directly in several works.
Wiki Pages
- [[sanatana-dharma-and-metaphysics]] — Sanatana Dharma and Metaphysics
- [[civilizational-consciousness]] — Civilizational Consciousness
- [[big-questions]] — Big Questions
Source Files
Big Questions
Blog Articles
- Civilizations as Kārmika Streams
- The Difference Between Us - on One-life vs. Multiple-life Metaphysics
Related Concepts
- Dharma — Karma is the mechanism by which dharmic and adharmic action generates consequence
- Metaphysics — The karma-phala doctrine is a metaphysical claim about causality, not merely an ethical one
- Civilizational Consciousness — Civilizations are understood by Bodha as kārmika streams — karma operating at collective scale