Guṇa and Karma

 
 

puruṣārtha - aims/purpose of being

dharma - natural law, righteousness 
artha - means, resources, security
kāma - pleasure, love, enjoyment
mokṣa - freedom, liberation 

karma phala

sañcita karma - accumulated, heaped up
prārabdha karma - begun, undertaken, commenced, fruit krīyamāṇa karma - being done, under performance 
āgama karma - coming, impending, future action

dṛḍha firm, fixed
ādṛḍha infirm, movable
dṛḍha ādṛḍha firm infirm, mutable


varṇa color, type, class

brāhmaṇa - priests, scholars and teachers
kṣatriya - rulers, warriors and administrators
vaiśya - agriculturalists and merchants
śūdra - laborers and service providers