Karma Agency and Freedom An Analytical Study of Agent Freedom in Classical Indian Philosophy

Indian philosophical thought has centred around various themes includingepistemological, metaphysical, linguistic, ethical and ontological concerns.Discussions on knowledge and its sources, nature and existence of God, ethicalvalues, causation, liberation, reality, and creation can easily be found. Thedoctrine of karma has also been an integral feature of classical Indian thought.But as far as the problem of freedom of the agent is concerned as well as theconception of agent's relation to the theory of karma, one does not find acomprehensive and detailed discussion done. Often scholars have raised theirconcerns with regard to this problem but to the best of my knowledge noconstructive elaborate studies have been produced. At the most fragmenteddiscussions pertaining to this problem do exist. It may have been felt byscholars that the classical period in Indian philosophy was majorly concernedwith the ways in which a person could transcend the cycle of birth and death toattain eternal bliss or realise God and so much could be found on 'freedomfrom' and not so much on 'freedom to'.