Anthropology: India (Karma, Moksha) (Sacred, Profane)
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“In Hinduism karma is inseparable from dharma or moral code which (itself) evaluates karma”
Karma reciprocal relationship to dharma is perhaps the most evident impact which this doctrine has in South Asian societies. Dharma being a moral code of conduct has great significance in all spheres of social life and most importantly reinforces and according to Hindu cosmogony is actually the biological predisposition which is involved in the creation and maintenance of the four varnas. Because each varna has its correlative dharma it would be fair to say that kharma is directly involved in enforcing and re-enforcing the social hierarchy in India as well as dictating the behavior and function of different classes . (KARMA + VARNA)
“...the historically crucial part of religion in legitimizing the particular institutions of a society.”
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