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Discussions of karma in both popular and scholarly discourse overwhelmingly interpret it as an individual moral mechanism linking personal action to personal consequence. This paper challenges that assumption by arguing that classical and modern Indic traditions preserve conceptual resources for understanding karma as fundamentally collective, relational, and distributed across shared fields of experience. Drawing on Advaita Vedānta and Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, the paper develops a comparative account of karma as relational becoming rather than individualized retribution.
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