Do you believe in karma?

Answer 1

Not literally, but things do tend to bite you in the ***.

Answer 2

In Karma thought, unhealthy karma can't be defeated by means of doing well karmas. The account for unhealthy karmas are separate. And the account of well karmas are separate. The results of karma can't be mitigated. It should be loved or suffered. There is a Sanskrit Sloka: "Avasyam anubhogthavyam kritham karma subha asubham; naa bhugtham ksheeyathe karma kalpa koti sathairapi". Meaning; We must endure the consequences of our karmas, if it is well or unhealthy. No karma gets erased by means of doing different deeds. Sometime we will have to suppose that we don't seem to be doing and that nature is bringing this sort of situation to drive us to take a normal direction to adopt that movement. There is a pronouncing in Mahanarayana Upanishad: "Kamokarsheet Manyurakarsheet Namo Namah". It is an intricate factor, which I don't wish to provide an explanation for right here. Those who recognise can fully grasp.

Answer 3

Karma is basic agriculture; you reap what you sow.

Do I believe in karma?
Is like saying I don't believe that car will hurt me if I stand in its way; it hardly matters if you believe in it or not cos it's still gonna getcha.

BUT just cos you do good doesn't guarantee only good will come to you.
Good things happen to good people as much as bad things happen to good people.

I just find it less stressful being gooder than badder.
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Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

Yes.

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 6

Yes, but most people don't have a clue what it really means & what it's all about. Every action has consequence and every reaction has reason. It all works out naturally, as all things do in the cyclic way of our universe.

Answer 7

Karma wasn't she that little girl that lived in South park, the one with the black hair and dirty face who liked Linus.

Answer 8

Absolutely. However, kamma does not have to be extended to past and future lives if one chooses not to.

Kamma is a here and know phenomena.

Technically, in Indian language, the word karma or kamma means action. The associated Indian words are "cetena", which means intention and "vipaka", which means fruit or result.

For example, under the intention of greed, one acts to rob and kill someone, which reaps the bitter fruit of being in prison, being disowned by friends and have a remorseful conscience or even worse, being like an unremorseful animal that decent people will avoid. This is an example of the cycle of intention, action and result.

Or, if a robber and murder comes to one's home and threatens to kill one's family and one, with the intention of compassion, acts to kill that robber, one may reap the fruit of shock and psychological discomfort. However because that action was based in the intention of compassion, one will not be affected like the person in the first example and one may even reap happiness in the knowledge they did a good deed. In the future, one's family will always thank one for saving their life.

To conclude, kamma means action and action has a fruit or result which is called "vipaka". The fruit of the action will be generally determined by one's intention.

Therefore, when people in the West say: "Oh, that's your kamma buddy", they really mean to say: "That's your vipaka!".

As the Christians say: "Do not be deceived, you cannot make a fool out of God, each person reaps what they sow" is the teaching of kamma.

However, you do not need to be religious or believe in God to understand and believe in kamma. Kamma is merely a natural psychological truth.

Human beings are designed by nature to be a certain way, especially designed to love their own life and protect their own life.

Our true nature is love. So when one acts in a way against "love" or acts towards other human beings in way one would not act towards oneself and acts without empathy, one reaps harmful kamma. This is because one acts with conflict against one's true nature.

Whilst human beings have the capacity to murder, steal, be adulterous, etc, nature designs one to be inherently the opposite. If beings were not compassionate, generous and faithful then survival and evolution could not occur.

Even animals love, nuture and protect their offspring. Any form of life that cannot "love" faces extinction.

This is why every spiritual being taught to love others as one loves oneself. Moses, Lao Tse, Buddha and Jesus all taught this teaching because it is basic psychological integrity or harmony.

For example, the Buddha taught:

"All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

All tremble at violence; life is dear to all. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

One who, while himself seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other beings who also desire happiness, will not attain happiness in the future.

One who, while himself seeking happiness, does not oppress with violence other beings who also desire happiness, will find happiness in the future.

Speak not harshly to anyone, for those thus spoken to might retort. Indeed, angry speech hurts, and retaliation may overtake you.

When the fool commits evil deeds, he does not realize (their evil nature), that witless man is tormented by his own deeds, like one burnt by fire.

He who inflicts violence on those who are unarmed, and offends those who are inoffensive, will soon come upon one of these ten states:

Sharp pain, or disaster, bodily injury, serious illness, or derangement of mind, trouble from the government, or grave charges, loss of relatives, or loss of wealth, or houses destroyed by ravaging fire; upon dissolution of the body that ignorant man is born in hell."

Answer 9

Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Answer 10

i prefer the instant variety