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Confidence
Belief overview
Karma and rebirth
Actions generate consequences and the soul goes through multiple births.
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Supportive
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Contrary
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Neutral
What it is: The tradition teaches that thoughts, words, and actions generate results that shape future experiences, including over various births.
How the tradition understands it: Karma is treated as precise moral law, linked to the state of the soul and to the process of degradation or spiritual restoration.
Textual basis and context: The belief appears frequently in courses, publications, and doctrinal expositions of the movement.
Objections and debates: There is discussion about how to reconcile individual responsibility, collective cycles of history, and action of divine grace in spiritual renewal.
Documentary evidence
Supportive
Bhagavad Gita 2.22
Classic verse on change of bodies.
Reference: Bhagavad Gita 2.22.
Content: The verse compares change of bodies to change of clothes, suggesting continuity of the soul beyond the physical body.
Use in debate: Frequently used source to explain rebirth and identity of the soul.
Brahma Kumaris, Law of Karma
Institutional exposition on karma and moral responsibility.
Reference: Institutional material on the law of karma.
Content: Describes karma as principle of moral cause and effect that acts throughout the soul's journey.
Use in debate: Used to explain spiritual responsibility and daily ethics.
Brahma Kumaris, Reincarnation
Institutional presentation on rebirth of the soul.
Reference: Institutional material on reincarnation or rebirth.
Content: Explains the passage of the soul through multiple births within the drama of the world.
Use in debate: Serves to connect soul identity, karma, and historical cycle.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.4.5
Classic text on action and destiny of the being.
Reference: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.4.5.
Content: The text links action, desire, and destiny of the being in ancient and influential formulation.
Use in debate: Functions as neutral support for language on karma and journey of the soul.