THE CONCEPT OF KARMA ( INTRO TO PHILO)

SHS-GAS

1. Do you believe in KARMA ? Prepared by: Melody G. Genese –SHS TII

2. KARMA is the Hindu view of causality in which good deeds, words, thoughts, and commands lead to beneficial effects for a person, and bad deeds, words, thoughts, and commands lead to harmful effects.

3. These effects are not necessarily immediate but can be visited upon a soul in future lives through reincarnation ; additionally, good or bad fortune experienced in life may be the result of good or bad actions performed in a past life .

4. Actions and consequences are not the major concern though. It is the moral reason for the action. The law of karma is about moral intentions.

5. Karma is a core concept in the Indian religions, including Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, although their specific views on karma vary. In Hinduism, karma is the force of retributive justice that compels believers to behave righteously according to Dharma —the moral order of the universe.

6. REINCARNATION is the philosophical or religious concept that an aspect of a living being starts a new life in a different physical body or form after each biological death.

7. It is also called rebirth or transmigration, and is a part of the Saṃsāra doctrine of cyclic existence

8. Karma is attached to the idea of reincarnation. There is an ongoing cycle of birth and death, conditioned by karma, linking an individual to past and future existence.

9. In reincarnation, the spirit or soul survives death and is reborn into a new body, human or nonhuman. Individuals can be reborn as animals, human beings or insects depending upon the depletion of evil karmas and maturing of good karmas.

10. ACTIVITY: Rightness means pleasing God, can you give examples of doing “right” action. 2. How do you show love towards others? Friends?Family?People in Need?