Karma or Destiny...?

Question

which do you believe is real?

Answer 1

Very possibly neither is real! Karma is an Eastern philosophy where your lifetime activities determine your fate either in the afterlife or in your next terrestrial life if you are reincarnated. Destiny is simply a term rather than a belief system, predestination being the belief, although one which is not commonly accepted, indicating as it does the preplanning of creation down to the minutest detail. Most religions allow for some manner of free will to be operative in our lives. Destiny is related to fate: the way that events transpire irrespective of our actions. It has no particular connection with Karma.

Answer 2

Both. Karma is a universal check and balance, destiny is some things are meant to happen.

So destiny has you meet someone and you two fall in love. Karma said that cause you were in a relationship when you two meet and you didn't do things the right way with to other person you and the one you were destined to be with will fall a part.

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Answer 3

I think both are same.You are destined to a state by your karma.
You will be blessed with some kind of intelligence depending on your karma and the goal is to better your destiny using your intelligence and doing good karma.
Even animals will have some kind of intelligence in varying degrees, so as you progress through the cycle of birth and death you will have a chance of reaching the penultimate stage of human being where you will have all the intelligence needed for good karma and thus progress to the ultimate state of unification with the super soul.You can also misuse the opportunity and reverse the progression for an inferior choice.
But you will have all kinds of distractions on your way to divert your attention and pull you back from your goal. One who is single mindedly concentrated on his goal will achieve Nirvana. One who is not so determined but is smart enough will utilize the opportunity for good karma and atleast guarantees another chance for another attempt. One who is foolish will misuse and does bad karma only to reverse back to a lower choice and remains in the cycle. Like snakes and ladders.
That's my understanding.No one needs to agree with me.

Answer 4

The universe runs on karmic laws, destiny, free will and chaos. I know some of this sounds contradictory, but it makes a mixture of laws that make our confusing world.

Answer 5

I think it's a good balance of both. But, with some choice thrown in there. Certain things are bound to happen, whether your a good person or not. It's just up to you how to act when the time comes.

Answer 6

They kind of mean the same thing. Karma is a Sanskrit word used in a certain context in Hinduism and Buddhism. It literally means "action" or "activity." It originally was a reference to performing religious observances (in ancient times east and west religious observances were thought necessary to maintain the order of the universe and one's culture and family--and destiny). Karma then became a term associated with observations about cause and effect--and this later got mixed up with ideas about morality, merit and demerit, redemption or punishment, and concepts about the transmigration of the soul (ie, reincarnation) Karma basically is the momentum of ones actions as a cycle of cause and effect . It is the reason for (in Hinduism) and the thing itself rather (in Buddhism) of reincarnation.

In the West in the ancient world, a similar concept of Destiny (or "Fate") was developed with the idea that the soul, once embodied, is vexed with certain traits influenced by god-like forces personified by the planets and zodiacal constellations (this goes into ancient ideas related to astrology). So again, certain rites and observances had to be enacted to modify the effects of these forces, and then mystical groups emerged (Hermeticism or mystery religions such as Mithracism, for example) whereby adherents participated in spiritual practices to overcome the psychospiritual challenges impressed upon them by the stars and thereby achieve gnosis and spiritual liberation (as in eastern mysticism, one is tasked with "burning up" one's karma to escape the cycle of birth and rebirth).

Answer 7

Neither.

Wyrd or orlog.

Those are much better.

Answer 8

neither