Meaning of duskarma | Babel Free

Definitions

A misdeed, sinful action, vice, or wrong.

Eastern, countable, uncountable

Examples

“... for an offence against Dharma, (i.e. law or morality) goes far to shed the duṣkarma that results from his offence.”

“Forcing oneself into a varṇa other than that in which he is born, will make the offender guilty of duṣkarma or sin , whose effect will be to intensify the effects of prāktanakarma (past-birth action) to which his present caste itself is traceable.”

“It is a definite consequence of the duṣkarma on the part of the individual.”

“At any one time we all have the preponderance of one guna over the other two and due to this we do either, (a) satkarma-good acts, or (b) duṣkarma-bad acts.”

“Knowingly or unknowingly people do a lot of duṣkarma (wrong deeds).”

“The tone of this verse and verses six and seven seem to refer to any karma whatever, whether it is śrauta, smārta or sādhāraṇa kind and even to duṣkarma that all humans do.”

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