HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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people are in a specific caste because of how they lived a past life.
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people in low castes are always reincarnated into the same caste.
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people can choose their own caste.
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people’s caste determined which gods they worshipped.
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Detailed explanation-1: -When one abides by their caste duty good Karma is earned and vice versa; and the Karma one collects is reflected in the next life as movement within the Caste system. The promise of upward mobility appealed to people, and was made plausible through Karma.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hindus aim to end the cycle of samsara through gaining good karma, which means doing good actions and deeds. Therefore, the actions of their previous lives and the actions of their mortal life today are all part of their effort to break the cycle of samsara, which each individual Hindu works towards.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhist philosophies, karma denotes the cycle of cause and effect. Like causes produce similar effects. For instance, right actions produce good results while wrong actions produce bad ones.
Detailed explanation-4: -With karma, like causes produce like effects; that is, a good deed will lead to a future beneficial effect, while a bad deed will lead to a future harmful effect.
Detailed explanation-5: -Karma is the law of action and reaction which governs life. The soul reaps the effects of its own actions. If we cause others to suffer, then the experience of suffering will come to us.