What is karma mean?

Question

I heard people keep talking about karma, and I don't really know what is it mean or is it about anyway? Can you tell me ?

Answer 1

In the Hindi Faith; which is popular in India karma is how a person reaches the ultimate state of being; nirvana.

Every creature has a karmic burden that they must work off by doing good deeds. If they do evil acts then they gain more of this karmic burden and when they die they may be reincarnated into a lower form or life and forced to live the life of an animal to work off some of this burden.

As you decrease your karmic burden then you get reincarnated as a rich man or a priest or a higher life form. The idea is that you will eventually reach the state of Nirvana, which isn't so much a place (like heaven) as a state of being.

In the United States and some Western Nations karma is considered the amount of good done by a person. Also the idea of the wheel of reincarnation from the Hindi myth is used to carry the burden of each person, and the wheel has its down points and its up points. This idea is similar to the concept of "what comes around goes around."

When people talk about karma they are amassing good deed and understanding of the higher plane of existence to become better people (this doesn't contradict a religion like Christianity). When someone does something bad to people who believe in Karma they think that they don't need to punish that person (and thereby decreasing their karma or increasing their karmic burden; both the same idea). Instead the universe will punish them.

People who do bad things will keep doing them until the point when they get caught or when their bad deeds catch up to them. I have seen this in action before. It may not be karma, but it does mean that I couldn't do anything worse to this guy than he ever did to himself.

Answer 2

Everything happens for a reason. Life really is fair, even tho it often does not seem it. We create our own karma.
For example, someone like Paris Hilton obviously has very good financial karma, bec $ falls into her lap (from her parents).
Maybe she was very generous in a previous life. Hard to imagine, but it is our soul that reincarnates, not our personality. If we do something bad, karma will bring about circumstances to teach us the error of our ways. This is inevitable. Karma is not really a punishment, but the vehicle by which we learn. We learn through emotionally painful experiences.

Answer 3

You know you could of looked this up on Google well anyway karma means that what goes around comes around.

Answer 4

Karma means what goes around comes around.

Answer 5

Karma What Is It

Answer 6

It's like a record of everything you do. When you do something good - - you gain karma. Do something bad - - - some of your karma is taken away.

Answer 7

It basically means, What goes around comes around. If you treat people badly, karma will make bad things happen to you etc.

Answer 8

karma means what goes around comes arounds sometimes it even means if you do something bad on earth your first life you might come back as a bug. And if your good is greater than your bad you will come back as something higher.

Answer 9

Karma (Sanskrit kárman "act, action, performance"[1]; Pāli kamma) (pronunciation (help·info)) is the concept of "action" or "deed" in Dharmic religions understood as denoting the entire cycle of cause and effect described in Hindu and Buddhist philosophies.

Listen to the song Karma by Alicia Keys
What goes around comes around!

Answer 10

Karma is simply maintaining a balance of experience in life. "What goes around comes around" is a simple way of saying it; you can't send negativity into the world without taking some yourself. It goes hand in hand with dharma, which is not harming any human, animal, or the land itself.