what does "''karma" mean ?

Answer 1

To better understand what Karma is, you'll need to understand how DESTINY, KARMA, AND DHARMA work.

First of all, DESTINY (or Fate), is envisaged as fore-ordained by the Divine and is a fixed timeline of events that is inevitable and unchangeable. There is nothing we can do to change our DESTINY.

Secondly, KARMA is freewill, though, so that an individual does have the ability to make choices on how he will live out his DESTINY (All living creatures are responsible for their KARMA-their actions and the effects of their actions). The LAW of KARMA acts back on an entity, from which the cause came, like the law of action and reaction without limiting free will of man.
KARMA is the sum of all that an individual has done, is currently doing, and will do. KARMA is not about retribution, vengeance, punishment, or reward - it's the effects from all deeds actively created, through choices made, in the past, present, and future experiences, thus making one responsible for one's own choices made in life and the pain and joy it brings to others. In religions that incorporate reincarnation, KARMA extends through one's present life and all past and future lives as well.

Lastly, DHARMA constituted the religious and moral doctrine of the rights and duties of each individual. Ethically, it means 'right way of living' or 'proper conduct,' especially in a religious sense. It works within the LAWS OF KARMA and morality, regulated by divine principles.

DHARMA provides the laws and KARMA judges the freewill choices of an individual in fulfilling that individual’s DESTINY. Again, in religions that incorporate reincarnation, KARMA extends through one's present life and all past and future lives as well. It is our soul achieving PERFECTION.

Answer 2

There are many words for it : 'Destino', or 'destiny', the arabic, 'kismet'. Someone once coined it as : 'What goes around comes around and what comes around goes around.' In other words: What you do unto others, they may well do unto you. There is always a sense of an endless cycle to its meaning - a cycle that is often meant to be broken. For example, the worse thing you could ever say to a Hindu: " I wish you many happy births." This is because, the goal of a Hindu is to be free from birth. To break the chain and discover deliverance from this life, whether s/he be human or a 'lower' form.

Answer 3

simply its the old " what goes around comes around" kinda a paying your dues based system/theory, karma is based on the way (as energy or soul) you live your mortal life at every moment and is returned to you in kind in the cycle of rebirth (samsara) this influences how you(if you believe in this) will spend your next incarnation on earth ..or.. if you will have completed your cycle of life on earth this is named Moksha, it means you have become concious of the the divine, and have transcended all things mortal (Brahman) you do not have to SUFFER endless rebirths, or samsara, any longer( having to live a mortal existence is considered suffering) you are now on your way to chill thru eternity in Nirvana

Answer 4

Karma is what you do and what you get based on what you do in this life on Earth. See link for more details:
http://www.yogavision.in/articles/displayarticle.aspx?id=378

Answer 5

karma that i know means that everything you have given to everybody (either people, plant, or animal)

if you have given the good things to them, you will get a good thing too later
but if you have hurted them, something will hurt you too later
so, everything that you have given to someone will give you a reply for you have given

Answer 6

a Sanskrit term that refers to cosmic "balance," the theory that an act will engender an opposite somewhre along the line.

Answer 7

It basically means what comes around goes around

Answer 8

what goes around comes around

Answer 9

you reap what you sow