What is karma?

Answer 1

karma if the belief that what ever you sow you will reap... if you do good things , good things will come back to you -if you do bad things bad things will come back to you... it also is the belief that we re-incarnate, that we return after death in new lives and spend our current life righting wrongs and learning lessons that we did not learn in our previous lives, and if we did evil in previous lives we may receive punishment in this life... in whatever way is deemed to teach us a lesson... if we did good in previous lives we may be rewarded in our current lifetime... and so on....

Answer 2

Karma literally means action. According to the Theory of Karma - every action taken to achieve a result or profit leaves a trace or a karmic residue behind it. Only a person who acts to produce results without worrying about profit does not accumulate such a Karmic residue. Such action normally comes out of love or pure passion.

Answer 3

Karma is like your fate. Some people believe that if you are mean to others, you attract bad karma and bad things will happen to you in return.

Answer 4

Karma is the duty which all humans are supposed to fullfil in their lifetimes.The real meaning of the word Karma in original Sanskrit is"What we do"or rather "what we are here to do".

Answer 5

Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म from the root kṛ, "to do", [meaning deed] meaning action, effect, destiny) is a term that comprises the entire cycle of cause and effect. Karma is a sum of all that an individual has done, is currently doing and will do. The effects of all deeds actively create present and future experiences, thus making one responsible for one's own life, and the pain in others. In religions that incorporate reincarnation, karma extends through one's present life and all past and future lives as well.

The "Law of Karma" is central in Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, & Jainism. (These religions were formed in India). All living creatures are responsible for their karma - way of life - and for their release from samsara. As a term, it can be traced back to the early Upanishads.

The Law of Karma is taught in the esoteric Christian tradition, Essenian and later Rosicrucian, as the "Law of Cause and Consequence/Effect" [1]. However, this western esoteric tradition adds that the essence of the teachings of Christ is that the law of sin and death may be overcome by Love, which will restore immortality.

The process view of release (moksha) from ego-consciousness (ahamkar) through individual responsibility for the totality of action with its inherent karma can be contrasted with the soteriological view of mainstream denominations of Christianity: grace given by faith in the suffering, death and ressurection of a singular saviour.

Answer 6

Karma is ultimatily the reality of life. In certain religions if you do bad bad is done to you, in some religions if you do bad you will be punished, and in all countries if you're doing bad you will be punished as decided by society. Ultimately karma is right in one way or another and in my view doing bad is punishment in itself by going through life knowing you have caused hurt and knowing to quote Bad Santa "Your Soul is a piece of ****"!!!!!!!

Answer 7

to put it in a easy way karma is life

Answer 8

Any thought or action which is done with 'I-ness' becomes karma

Answer 9

What goes around comes around. It comes from Buddhism.

Answer 10

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