Ajivika Sect In Ancient India
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EXAMIVERSE
Core Doctrines
- Niyati (Absolute Fatalism): All events and actions are predestined by cosmic law, eliminating personal agency.
- Rejection of Karma: Considered the doctrine of karma as illusory, since outcomes are not shaped by individual deeds.
- Belief in Ātman: Affirmed a material soul (ātman) within beings, but its liberation was also governed by fate.
- Atomism: Proposed that reality comprised atoms whose combinations and movements were predetermined by cosmic forces.