The problem of evil, in particular the question of theodicy, has long been overlooked or misunderstood by Indologists, who have maintained that there is no problem of evil in Indian thought, or that it was "solved" by the doctrine of transmigration and karma. Writers on Indian philosophy have touched upon the problem but no one has treated the extensive mythology of evil in Vedic and Puranic texts, which offer the full range of Indian approaches to the ...
The present collection of essays presents a variety of ideas about rebirth, often in competition and disagreement, but always in dialogue; for what makes Indian thought so fascinating is the constant rapprochement between opposed world views, hardly a true synthesis, but a cross fertilization that seems to have no end, one mediation giving rise to another, each result becoming a new cause, endlessly, like Karma itself. This volume might serve as model of ...