What is karma? any ideas?

Question

I am doing a essay on the cause and effects of karma. karma itself means " cause and effect in sanskrit. Dose anyone have any ideas to help me? Thank you. Peace

Answer 1

There are two kinds of karma.

Good Karma- the one that brings you good luck for all of the good things that you do.
Bad Karma- is the opposite of the good karma.

Answer 2

Karma is the action/actions you do. Every action contributes to your Karma either positively, or negatively. The Universe keeps track of every action. Most people know Karma by it's laws of cause and effect. These are ideas that what you do that is good, or bad comes back to you.

Answer 3

In Sanskrit, "karma" simply means "activity". Virtually anything else one might say about karma, including adding good or bad qualifiers, is an assumption.

Answer 4

according to hindu/buddhist tradition karma is the activity that keeps us trapped in the world of material existence, our actions here are seen as skillful and non-skillful not good or bad. a skillfull act is one that will keep us from returning to an earthly existence again, freeing ourselves from the wheel of reincarnation.
cause and effect are the key to understanding the basics of karma
the cause of karma is unknown other than it is a natural law
the effect of karma is that it can keep people from doing things that are detremental to themselves and/or their society at large.

Answer 5

karma is the idea that good deads are rewarded and bad deeds punished in this life or another, it is just another example of people trying to apply fairness to an indifferent world

Answer 6

Karma
According as one acts, so does he become. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Karma literally means "deed" or "act" and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction which governs all life. Karma is a natural law of the mind, just as gravity is a law of matter. Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determines our future. It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating. The conquest of karma lies in intelligent action and dispassionate reaction. Not all karmas rebound immediately. Some accumulate and return unexpectedly in this or other births.


Simply stated, karma is the law of action and reaction which governs consciousness. In physics-the study of energy and matter-Sir Isaac Newton postulated that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Push against a wall. Its material is molecularly pushing back with a force exactly equal to yours. In metaphysics, karma is the law that states that every mental, emotional and physical act, no matter how insignificant, is projected out into the psychic mind substance and eventually returns to the individual with equal impact.

The akashic memory in our higher chakras faithfully records the soul's impressions during its series of earthly lives, and in the astral/mental worlds in-between earth existences. Ancient yogis, in psychically studying the time line of cause/effect, assigned three categories to karma. The first is sanchita, the sum total of past karma yet to be resolved. The second category is prarabdha, that portion of sanchita karma being experienced in the present life. Kriyamana, the third type, is karma you are presently creating. However, it must be understood that your past negative karma can be altered into a smoother, easier state through the loving, heart-chakra nature, through dharma and sadhana. That is the key of karmic wisdom. Live religiously well and you will create positive karma for the future and soften negative karma of the past.

Truths and Myths About Karma

Karma operates not only individually, but also in ever-enlarging circles of group karma where we participate in the sum karma of multiple souls. This includes family, community, nation, race and religion, even planetary group karma. So if we, individually or collectively, unconditionally love and give, we will be loved and given to. The individuals or groups who act soulfully or maliciously toward us are the vehicle of our own karmic creation. The people who manifest your karma are also living through past karma and simultaneously creating future karma. For example, if their karmic pattern did not include miserliness, they would not be involved in your karma of selfishness. Another person may express some generosity toward you, fulfilling the gifting karma of your past experience. Imagine how intricately interconnected all the cycles of karma are for our planet's life forms.
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Answer 7

Karma is natures way of evening the score.

I hurt someone once and I have paid for it ever since. Did those that hurt me pay for it too? I wonder.

Answer 8

To me, Karma is like your universal credit-score. ;)

If you're good to others, you have good will in your heart, and you live a good life, you will get good things in return.

If you are mean spirited, unkind, and hateful, you will get that back to you.

Sometimes things don't "Get back to you" till the next life- and that's not something you can control.

Answer 9

"Karma" is a Parallel Truth to:
You Reap What you have Sown (one of GOD's Spiritual Laws put into the Universe)
(it is in the Bible)

GOD put Spiritual Laws into our Universe.
People tie into "Parallel Truths" all of the Time, but they don't know you can Trace'em back to The Word of GOD (in the Bible).

Answer 10

What goes around comes around....