c. Do animals acquire new Karma?

Every birth is a result of their karmic deeds, whether it’s an animal or a human birth. Animals are born with just basic survival instinct (food, shelter, safety), with a bottom line (birth) and top line (death) between which they live their entire life. For them, they don’t accumulate new karma as they live by their natural instincts and tendencies. They rather dissolve karmas from their previous lives (e.g. if your longing was for food in your previous life, in your new life you may be born as a well-fed domesticated pig).
Only humans have the ability to break the cycle of birth and death. They do so by dissolving their previous and current lives’ karma (prarabdh).

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Relevant videos: Swami Mukundanand Can Animals do Karma?

Contributor: Vikas Gupta

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