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Hoy en día, la palabra ''karma'' se utiliza como un sustituto de moda de la palabra ''destino''. Pero creer en el karma no es fatalismo. El karma, de acuerdo a los hindúes, puede hacer que las personas nazcan con ciertas tendencias o características, pero no las obliga a actuar de acuerdo con esas características. El karma no niega el libre albedrío. | |||
Each person “can choose to follow the tendency he has formed or to struggle against it,”<ref>Brahmacharini Usha, comp., ''A Ramakrishna-Vedanta Wordbook'' (Hollywood, Calif.: Vedanta Press, 1962), s.v. “karma.”</ref> 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.”<ref>''The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion'' (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1989), s.v. “karma.”</ref> | Each person “can choose to follow the tendency he has formed or to struggle against it,”<ref>Brahmacharini Usha, comp., ''A Ramakrishna-Vedanta Wordbook'' (Hollywood, Calif.: Vedanta Press, 1962), s.v. “karma.”</ref> 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.”<ref>''The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion'' (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1989), s.v. “karma.”</ref> | ||