I need some information on karma. Can someone explain this to me please? How does karma work?

Answer 1

Everything you do leaves an imprint on the universe, which must remain in balance (or else lots of good people will die), it's maintained by (possibly) God/deities/cosmic forces/your innermost consciousness (I do not know exactly what to call it- leave it for you to decide), but you create an 'energy' every single time you do something (this energy naturally seeks neutrality), and be it positive or negative energy it will come about (neutralise itself) as effectively/swiftly as it can; so if you live by the sword, you will die by the sword, etc. Positive, pure motivated actions lead to positive consequences; wheras negative deluded actions lead to negative consequences. The results, or 'fruits' of karma are everything which affects you that is beyond your control.

Whichever energy is in most abundance when you die (and your state of mind at the moment of death- angry people tend to be angry at their death, peaceful people tend to be peaceful when they die]) dictates how you will be reborn. If you were miserly in your past life you will be reborn into poverty, and if you were generous you will be reborn into a rich well off place.

Answer 2

The subject of the Bhagavad-gita entails the comprehension of five basic truths. First of all, the science of God is explained and then the constitutional position of the living entities, jivas. There is isvara, which means the controller, and there are jivas, the living entities which are controlled. If a living entity says that he is not controlled but that he is free, then he is insane. The living being is controlled in every respect, at least in his conditioned life. So in the Bhagavad-gita the subject matter deals with the isvara, the supreme controller, and the jivas, the controlled living entities. Prakrti (material nature) and time (the duration of existence of the whole universe or the manifestation of material nature) and karma (activity) are also discussed. The cosmic manifestation is full of different activities. All living entities are engaged in different activities. From Bhagavad-gita we must learn what God is, what the living entities are, what prakrti is, what the cosmic manifestation is, how it is controlled by time, and what the activities of the living entities are.

Out of these five basic subject matters in Bhagavad-gita it is established that the Supreme Godhead, or Krishna, or Brahman, or the supreme controller, or Paramatma—you may use whatever name you like—is the greatest of all. The living beings are in quality like the supreme controller. . .

These activities can be changed when the living being is in the mode of goodness, in sanity, and understands what sort of activities he should adopt. If he does so, then all the actions and reactions of his past activities can be changed. Consequently, karma is not eternal. Therefore we stated that of the five items (isvara, jiva, prakrti, time and karma) four are eternal, whereas karma is not eternal.

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So, the conclusion is among the five,subject matters discussed in the Bhagavad-Gita, the Karma is not eternal and can be changed, whereas the isvara, jiva, prakrit and time are eternal.

Answer 3

Karma is divided into 3 groups: 1. Kriyaman or new works 2. Pralabd or fate (karma part which is scheduled to live now as a result of our actions in the past) 3. Sinchit or karma backup as an example, we take the case of a farmer. He prepares his land for the seed sown. He may choose any seed to be planted. Suppose he chooses and he planted wheat. Harvest is ready and he picked it. Part of it aside to be eaten duringthe year, and the rest he keeps. Year after year, he lived from the previous crop year and add savings to be used in a bad season or when needed. You will see that he is alive and hope to live from what has been sown and reap its own. Similarly, whatever we do in life now, it will be our fate inlife to come and some of it will be saved and to be givento us at any time if we lack karma. Without karma, negative forces can not stop the soul into the body, and no body, no karma that can be done. Negative forces that determine whether it will increase savings or reduce kriyaman fortune to be saved. As farmers prepare their land for the next planting season and the life of the previous harvest whilerelying on the savings, then we too undergo our fate thatwe can not disturb final. But for the future, we are free to do according to our desire. And we still have a residual deposit from past lives that we do not know. Therefore, we now have two functions: A. In the case of fate, we are not helpless, but ... B. In the case of the new act, we are free to plant the seeds for the future.

Answer 4

There are many problems with the salvation-by works doctrine of reincarnation. First, there are many practical problems. For example:
1. We must ask, why does one get punished for something he or she cannot remember having done in a previous life?
2. If the purpose of karma is to rid humanity of its selfish desires, then why hasn't there been a noticeable improvement in human nature after all the millennia of reincarnations?
3. If reincarnation and the law of karma are so beneficial on a practical level, then how do advocates of this doctrine explain the immense and ever-worsening social and economic problems - including widespread poverty, starvation, disease, and horrible suffering - in India, where reincarnation has been systematically taught through out its history?
There are also many biblical problems with believing in reincarnation. For example, in 2 Corinthians 5:8 the apostle Paul states, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." At death, the, the Christian immediately goes into the presence of the Lord, not into another body. In keeping with this. Luke 16:19-31 tells us that unbelievers at death go to a place of suffering, not into another body.
Further, Hebrews 9:27 assures us that "man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." Each human being LIVES ONCE as a mortal on earth, DIES ONCE, and then FACES JUDGMENT. He does not have a second chance by reincarnating into another body.

Answer 5

Karma is usually perceived as related to Buddhism. But Buddhists themselves don't see karma as a law that works on Buddhists only.

Karma is as simple as the law of cause and results. If you help people, people will help you. If you do good deeds, you will receive the results of good deeds. And so on. Christians believe in sawing seeds and harvesting the results, which I thing is similar but not exactly the same as the Buddhist belief of karma.

Whether Buddhism exists or not, Karma is believed to work also, because it is the rule of the nature. Like gravitation, whether you believe or not, gravitation is there. However, karma is not as obvious as gravitation.

We live and do good things and bad things, and we also accept the results of good things and bad things that we and other people around us do.

Answer 6

The Pali term Karma literally means action or doing. Any kind of intentional action whether mental, verbal, or physical, is regarded as Karma. It covers all that is included in the phrase "thought, word and deed". Generally speaking, all good and bad action constitutes Karma. In its ultimate sense Karma means all moral and immoral volition. Involuntary, unintentional or unconscious actions, though technically deeds, do not constitute Karma, because volition, the most important factor in determining Karma, is absent.

The Buddha says:

"I declare, O Bhikkhus, that volition is Karma. Having willed one acts by body, speech, and thought." (Anguttara Nikaya)

Every volitional action of individuals, save those of Buddhas and Arahants, is called Karma. The exception made in their case is because they are delivered from both good and evil; they have eradicated ignorance and craving, the roots of Karma.

"Destroyed are their germinal seeds (Khina bija); selfish desires no longer grow," states the Ratana Sutta of Sutta nipata.

This does not mean that the Buddha and Arahantas are passive. They are tirelessly active in working for the real well being and happiness of all. Their deeds ordinarily accepted as good or moral, lack creative power as regards themselves. Understanding things as they truly are, they have finally shattered their cosmic fetters – the chain of cause and effect.

Karma does not necessarily mean past actions. It embraces both past and present deeds. Hence in one sense, we are the result of what we were; we will be the result of what we are. In another sense, it should be added, we are not totally the result of what we were; we will not absolutely be the result of what we are. The present is no doubt the offspring of the past and is the present of the future, but the present is not always a true index of either the past or the future; so complex is the working of Karma.

It is this doctrine of Karma that the mother teaches her child when she says "Be good and you will be happy and we will love you; but if you are bad, you will be unhappy and we will not love you." In short, Karma is the law of cause and effect in the ethical realm

Answer 7

The Bible verse for Karma is you reap what you sow. And all things in the Universe balance each other out so in the sum of things there is no effect. All good will balance with all evil

Answer 8

Karma is the deeds you perform, by knowing and having a thought. There will be a result for each act, so its really worth to be alert on your thoughts and deeds, before performing....
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All the best

Answer 9

What every you do comes back on you
You reap what you sew.
Good comes back for good and bad comes back for bad.
that easy

Answer 10

The law of cause and effect.