meaning is “order”. In ideology of dharma, dharma applies to individuals and its best meaning is “duty”. The two meanings are related each other. When a society is
properly ordered, people do their duty. When people do their duty, society is properly ordered. Social order lies in varna dharma, for Individual who refuses to do the
duties, he will get the law of karma. Law of karma according to Stern is the core of Hinduism. Mahatma Gandhi called it as “impossible of evasion” or an “inexorable
law”. “Whatever man sows, that’s shall he reap”, God does not determine our own fate: to make choice, to sow as we will.
2.1.2.1.1.3. Reincarnation
Another belief in Hinduism which cannot be separated from karma is reincarnation. Reincarnation is removal or rebirth of the soul, which is believed as a
reality. Based on Lemaitre’s explanation 1959: 74 the law of karma automatically postulates the law of reincarnation as a necessity, because human being must pay the
consequences of his actions. Lemaitre also explains that the life of an individual is only one in an unending sequence which has no end. Every human being will born
in the next live to face the preceding karma as a human, an animal or as another creature depend on their karma. The chain of succeeding existences is known as
samsara . Human can stop samsara and can bring karma to an end by offering to the
godhead every action, thought and word, and individual desires and aspirations must disappear for ever in the face of the supreme Will.
While Robert W. Stern 1993: 57 claims that our gift from Him is the capacity to determine our fate. The result of man choice takes place after they have
experienced the incident of death and in the incident of the next birth or in the final release of these incidents. What man sows in this lifetime, he will reap in the next.
Brahman has sown badly will be born as someone whose caste lower than a brahman
and the sudra who has sown well will be reborn as more than a sudra. People who have sown perfectly well will not be reborn but will attain moksha.
2.1.2.1.1.4. Release Mokhsa
Mokhsa is the liberation from the cycle of rebirth and re-death, oneness
with God 1993: 57. Hinduism claims that the soul is not born and does not die. It passes
from the body until it becomes pure enough. Hinduism teaches how human being can become Brahman. Human being can become one with Brahman through the proper
disciplined of mind and body 1971: 225. This disciplined is called yoga. The Bhagavad-Gita
as cited in The World Book Encyclopedia, 1971: 225 describes three ways of reaching Brahman:
a The way of works, or action and the performance of good deeds.
b The way of thought, or philosophy and meditation
c The way of faith and devotion to one God.
Lemaitre 1959: 77 explains that the aim of Hindus is to help man to release from the universe, to liberation from samsara through the certainty of his
identity as an individual with the God. If human being wants to break the fatal chain of transmigration, he has to extinguish all desires in the self because the desire
contains the seed and the root of existence. Human being can obtain moksa or release if he has been freed in his own lifetime.
Sen, K.M 1984: 19 mentions that Hindu documents emphasize three main ways of reaching God; the first is jnana knowledge, the second is karma
action and the third is bhakti devotion. The majority of the economically poor Hindus approach God through traditional simple method using the ways of devotion
bhakti and of performances karma rather than the path of pure knowledge jnana. It is because bhakti and karma are easier to do for the poor, bhakti means
people have to do ritual obligation and karma means people have to do their dharma in order to gain moksa.
2.1.2.1.1.5. Caste System
