Tuesday, May 21, 2013

LIMITS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Take the word "karma," for instance.  Karma can mean a deed, the consequence of a deed, the law of cause and effect operating in the moral world, or the sum of consequences resulting from an individual's actions in this and previous lives.  It is for this reason that Vedanta translators and teachers retain a large number of Sanskrit and Bengali terms in their work.

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