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Dear visitor, Please leave any message on the article's talk page. Thank you. Kind regards, Mark.muesse (talk) 19:26, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Karma in Hinduism
Thank you for your comments. I am not the sole author of the article on Karma in Hinduism. I am the one who added articles from academics such as "Karma, causation, and divine intervention". Philosophy East and West (Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press), Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophy, pg. 34, by Vraj Kumar Pandey, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Dasgupta, Surendranath, A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume V, The Southern Schools of Saivism, p. 87. and Krishnan, Yuvraj, "The Doctrine of Karma," 1997, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers and noted teacher such as Swami Sivananda. So your comments do not pertain to me. If you have academic sources, please add. Thanks. Raj2004 (talk) 01:23, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Contrary to what you believe, there are not thousands of scholarly articles on Karma in Hinduism. Professors focus more on religious practices and other theological aspects. In this area, much of the writing has also been done by popular teachers. If you have some of those thousand sources, please add. Even good libraries have more sources on the Abrahamic religions, rather than Hinduism.

Thanks. Raj2004 (talk) 13:09, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Karma
I object to part of your source stating "concludes it is a theory that is not derived from reality and cannot be proven, considers it invalid for its failure to explain evil / inequality / other observable facts about society, treats it as a convenient fiction to solve practical problems in Upanishadic times, and declares it irrelevant." The other statements are accurate. Your source is contradicted by the statements of the Brahma Sutras, a major Vedantic text which declares karma as the reason for explanation of evil/inequality and dependent on Ishvara. This view is also contradicted by Professor Bruce R. Reichenbach; see Theistic Explanations of Karma, pg. 146 of Causation and Divine Intervention by BR Reichenbach at http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/reiche2.htm citing Sankara's commentary on Brahma Sutras,III, 2, 38, and 41. In fact, Professor Reichenbachstates on p. 146 of that article " `Sankara argues  that  the original karmic  actions    themselves  cannot bring about the proper results at        some  future   time;   neither   can  supersensuous,        nonintelligent  qualities  like apuurva or ad.r.s.ta        by  themselves   mediate   the  appropriate,  justly        deserved  pleasure and pain.  The fruits, then, must        be administered  through  the action  of a conscious        agent,  namely,  God  (Isvara).(13)

Please review your source. Raj2004 (talk) 13:21, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

I disagree with part of Professor Halbass' statement as stating that Vedanta does not consider karma as not an explanation for explaining evil as this is flat wrong; see full discussion on the Talk section of Karma in Hinduism. Quote what the major teachers of Vedanta said, not on Professor's beliefs. Raj2004 (talk) 19:13, 7 December 2014 (UTC) Your comments lack the stronger support of SriBhayas and Adi Sankara who are the premier teachers on Vedanta not YOUR PROFESSOR.

sEE MY COMMENTS THEY ARE NOT ORIGINAL RESEARCH. Raj2004 (talk) 00:41, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Mark, I appreciate your efforts to improve the article and did not intend to be combative. Please see my comments in the article.

Raj2004 (talk) 23:15, 9 December 2014 (UTC)