What is karma?How do we get good karma or bad karma and who is the judge of our karma?

Answer 1

You know- what goes around comes around. Most of our karma we are getting now is coming from our previous lives. That is why a child is born sick or blind, healthy or in a poor or wealthy family. It is all due to past karma. We can change our karma by following the Laws of God also known as Krishna, Allah, Jehovah, Vishnu, Rama, etc. But if we choose not to then we will get the reactions to our good and bad actions. Chanting the Hare Krishna Maha Mantra is the quickest way to overcome all material reactions.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krisna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Practicing Bhakti Yoga (Devotional service to God) then one offers ones thoughts, words and actions to God named above and one will get no material reaction for their actions. They will only get more and more realization of their true self and more love for God and at the end of life return to the eternal Spiritual Kingdom where there is no more Repeated birth, death, old age or disease (No Karma) For info go to harekrishnatemple.com read Science of Self Realization by Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada Tells how.

Answer 2

Karma literally means "action." It is everything we think, say or do. All of one's thought, words, and actions are either (according to Early Buddhism) helpful to attaining awakening or detrimental to attaining the goal. The way you can judge whether something is helpful or harmful is to ask yourself if an old, wise person would judge the act to be helpful or harmful. When Western people think of karma, they usually think of the result of an action that "comes back around," but the other half of karma is the actual doing of the deed that causes resultant karma. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Karma is - Action (work)
The inherited qualities formed at the time of conception; the qualities of the essence of the five elements (earth, fire, water, air, and ether); the qualities of the mind; the qualities of the connection to hell; the qualities and actions of the seventeen (17) puranas which are: arrogance, karma, and maya, or illusion; the three (3) sons of maya, tarahan, singhan, and suran; the six (6) intrinsic evils of lust, anger, greed, attachment, bigotry, and envy; and the five acquired evils of intoxication, desire, theft, falsehood, and murder.

Bad karma comes to man automatically if not intercepted by man and denied entry. Good karma is inherited through Understanding and Wisdom through correct and proper actions in ones life.

Man ultimately is the judge of his or her own karma. Free will within man allows either form of karma to enter into the heart of man. Man must be ever vigilant to monitor his or her constantly changing karma.

"May we all manage our karma well."
"Peace be always with you."

Answer 4

For every action there is an equal or opposite reaction. You reap what you sow. If you sow discord, hatred and selfishness, than that is what you reap.
If you sow kindness, harmony, and peace, that is what you reap.
I like to think that God of the Fates are the judge of karma. I just try to do what's right and don't worry about what's outside my power. If I can do some good than I'll do it, and what comes around does go around.

Answer 5

Karma is judged by the universe, based on our actions and the intent of our actions.

Basically, do good things (with pure motives) and good things will come back. Do bad things (with bad intent) and bad things will come back to you. Similar to the pagan threefold law (what you do, good or bad, comes back to you threefold), or the Christian "do unto others".

It's somewhat more complicated than that, as it is integrated into the beliefs, practices and deities of several religions, but that's kind of the short version in a Western context.

Remember that doing good things to specifically improve your karma is not itself a pure motive.

Answer 6

Eastern thought says that Karma is the great "balance" in the cosmos. The basic idea is that you every good deed you do is rewarded and every bad deed you do is punished. So this is where the idea "you reap what you sow" comes into play.

And there is no judge of goodness or badness merely the universe trying to keep itself balanced on the right track. So if you do something good, you help the universe and in turn you will be rewarded for your goodness. Consequently, if you do something bad, you harm the universe and will be punished for it.

Answer 7

Karma is something made up by people to try to explain why things go good and bad. It's not real.

Answer 8

TRANSLATION
Because it is karma that causes the conditioned living entity to accept and then give up different high-and low-grade material bodies, this karma is his enemy, friend and neutral witness, his spiritual master and controlling lord.
PURPORT
Even the demigods are bound and limited by the laws of karma. That Indra himself is subordinate to the laws of karma is explicitly stated in the Brahma-saàhitä (5.54): yas tv indra-gopam atha vendram aho sva-karma-bandhänurüpa-phala-bhäjanam ätanoti. The Supreme Lord, Govinda, awards all creatures the appropriate results of their work. This is as true for mighty Indra, the lord of the material heavens, as it is for the germ called indra-gopa. The Bhagavad-gitä (7.20) also states, kämais tais tair håta-jïänäù prapadyante 'nya-devatäù. Only those who have lost their intelligence because of various material desires surrender unto demigods rather than worship the Supreme Lord. In fact, the demigods cannot award benefits to anyone independently, as stated by Lord Krsna in the Gitä: mayaiva vihitän hi tän. All benefits are ultimately issued by the Lord Himself.
Thus it is not altogether incorrect to say that demigod worship is useless, since even the demigods are under the laws of karma. In fact, this is the case. But Lord Krsna, the Supreme Absolute Truth, is not subordinate to the law of karma; rather, He can independently offer or withhold His favor. This is confirmed in the verse from the Brahma-saàhitä quoted above, the third line of which is karmäëi nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhäjäm: [Bs. 5.54] "The Supreme Lord burns up all the accumulated karma of those engaged in His loving service." Not only is Lord Krsna above the laws of material action and reaction, but He can immediately dissolve these laws for anyone who satisfies Him through loving service. Thus the almighty God is supreme in absolute freedom, and by surrendering to Him we can escape the bonds of karma and stop accepting their dismal rule as supreme.
SB 10.24.17
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http://www.webcom.com/ara/col/books/CLAS/bhag/

Answer 9

Karma is the energy you get back from the things you do!
Positive - good karma from good things done.
negative - bad karma from the bad things done
your own morality decides good & bad!
the oldest sayinf I can remember is
"It's all on the wheel. It all comes back around!" < this is karma!

Answer 10

It is newtons third law. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Do not worry much about this.

Just try to be good to everyone which will make you feel good and the judge is you only because, only you know what you are doing & going to do next and no one else.