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The ten Sukarmas may be stated as follows
It will be found that most of these are not passive actions but represent extension from certain deeds. The ten Sukarmas are as follows
1. Abstention from killing life (Prāņātipāta Virati ). 2. Abstention from sex impulses and hypocrisy (Kāmārikācāra) 3. Abstention from accepting things not actually offered to one
(Adattādā navịttiḥ ). 4. Abstention from telling lies ( Mrşăvadaviratiḥ ). 5. Abstention from using malicious language :( Pisunavācana
virati ). 6. Abstention from harsh speech ( Paruşavācanaśrutiḥ ) 7. Abstention from making irrelevant and unconnected statements
(Pralāpaviratiḥ ). 8. Abstention from Abhidhyā ( Anābhidhyā ). 9. Abstention from killing ( Avyāpāda ), 10. Right vision ( Samyag dịşti ).
In the above work the relative position of a person in heaven is said to be dependant on the relative greatness of his merit on earth.1
It is asserted in the Saundarānanda Kávya that the period of enjoyment of the pleasures of heaven in life depends on the amount and quality of the good deed of which it is the result.2 We further read in the same poem that it is karmas alone that bind us to different persons in the world by way of relations and we think them to be our own. Just as a traveller takes a refuge with leaves persons but leaves them later on to reach destination, similarly we are to think of our kith and kin.I
Kālidása, the well known Sanskrit poet was well aware of the doctrine of karma in all its aspects, The absence of an issue in the case of King Dilipa, belonging to the solar dynasty of 1. Saundarānada Kavya, Sarga X, 32. 2. Saundarānanda Kívya, Sarga XI, 60 3. Ibid. 13, 31.
