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The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect, especially the principle by which a person is rewarded or punished in a subsequent incarnation for deeds in the previous incarnation; the theory of inevitable consequence.
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One's destiny; fate.
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Intentional act — in thought, word or deed — holding consequences for the doer of the act based on the quality of the intention.
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the law of cause and effect, through which one's present and future lives are influenced by one's thoughts and actions
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A chain of cause and effect of the situational acts and their final result.
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(the result of energies experiencing each other and can be catagorized as good and bad)
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the effects of a Hindu's actions (mentally, verbally and bodily) in this and previous existences determine their experience in this and future existences, and are known as karma, or more specifically the Law of Karma. In Hinduism, a soul reincarnates again on earth until it perfects itself and reunites with its source. Therefore, a Hindu's goal may be to lead a 'pure' life, avoid creating more karma and move closer to eventually escaping the cycle of life, death and rebirth.
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material, fruitive activity and its reactions; also, fruitive actions performed in accordance with Vedic injunctions.
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The law of cause and effect, which reflects personal and collective actions in like kind, back to their originators. The manifestations brought about in life as a result of the type of Intent employed.
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The law of cause and effect. Also called the "Three Fold Law." It is the belief that if you do good, you will receive good. If you do evil, you will receive evil. The happens within a lifetime, or over several lifetimes.
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The sum of a person's actions in all their lifetimes (see Reincarnation): positive or negative actions are believed to affect the person's future in a positive or negative way
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Cause and effect from life to life. Work or activity offered to God, as in Karma Yoga.
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Term used to describe the basic concept of Hinduism and Buddhism in which thoughts and deeds determine the consequences of one's life.
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The belief that what happened in a person's past life/lives determines what happens to them in their present one. People slowly work off their own sins from previous lives. One of the biggest lies there is, and a huge excuse for apathy and inaction, since it says we should not help those less well-off than ourselves because any person being helped is not working off their own karma when we help them. To repeat: Karma is a lie. In countries where the Hindu belief of karma is prevalent (eg, India) we see horrendous instances of poverty and deprivation as a result of people turning a blind eye to others' needs, thinking that the suffering person deserves to be in the state they are in. Related to reincarnation.
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Literally meaning "Cause and Effect". It is a law that whatever actions you perform, good or bad, have and effect which will return to you in this life or in a future one.
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an East Indian word that describes the debt that occurs when a spirit goes from life to life; - if something happens that makes the person owe something to somebody or, if the person wastes their life, they have to repay it in the next lifetime
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The inherited qualities formed at the time of conception; the qualities of the essences of the five elements; the qualities of the mind; the qualities of the connection to hell. The qualities and actions of the seventeen puranas arrogance, karma, maya [illusion]; tarahan, singhan, and suran, the three sons of maya representing the sexual energies; the six intrinsic evils of lust, anger, miserliness, attachment, fanaticism, and envy; and the five acquired evils of intoxication, obsession, theft, murder, and falsehood.
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The belief that a person experiences the consequences of his/her own actions. The ongoing influence of past actions on the future. This carries over from past lives into present and future incarnations. The saying “You reap what you sow” is similar to the Hindu concept of Karma.
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The forces generated by a person's actions to determine his destiny in his next existence. Kirlian Photography- Rather than normal photography, this takes pictures of someone's aura. Ley - Force "lines" that travel great distances. Many old ruins were built on these, wielding great psychic power when tapped into.
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The belief that one's thoughts and deeds can either be counted against them or added to their spiritual path across several life times.
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the integrated collection of good and evil that a person accumulates during one's present and former lives. It is believed by Hindus, Buddhists and some others that the amount and type of karma will determine a person's state when they are reincarnated in their next life. Similarly, the sum total of one's acts in previous lives determines one's current life. During their lives, most people have performed good and bad deeds and thus have generated good and bad karma. Thus their next life will be a mixture of misery and unhappiness. Although the term normally applies to individuals, there exists group karma, family karma and even national karma. Some New Agers and Neopagans believe in Karma, but tend to restrict its effect to a person's present lifetime.
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Spiritual Force, generated by one's actions, which determines reincarnated situation
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yogic system believing that everything you do, say or think has an immediate effect on the universe and in you
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(Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation
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an interesting concept
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the force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism or Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and to determine the nature of the person's next existence.
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matter that is attached to the soul in response to actions in daily life.
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actions and their consequences
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In the author's opinion, Karma is what is referred to as Sin in the Holy Bible. Karma is the accumulated influential force generated by all past acts of consciousness, positive and negative, of good and bad deeds. Through Karma, a spirit is enabled to obtain the real life experiences it requires to progress spiritually (through living experience), via multiple incarnations into the physical dimension. Karma allows a spirit to maintain a healthy spiritual balance, life after life, and helps avoid the possibility of soul corruption. Karma is not a process of reward and punishment. Karma provides spiritual harmony through a process of enforced spiritual balance. Also see: Karmic Law, and Universal Law.
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reactions arising from actions, cause and effect, reaping what you sow, etc. in this or previous lives.
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Sanskrit, Buddhism, Hinduism, Theosophy, the principle that makes every man or woman the cause of their present global location, lifestyle, intelligence, relatives and physical body condition.
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To varying degrees, depending on specific sects, it is the sum of one's actions in life, being good or evil, which determines one's destiny in reincarnation. Found in all Hindu, and many Buddhist, denominations.
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The creative power that causes the actions of beings.
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Means, “action and its effects.” This is the idea that our past actions have created current tendencies, limitations and opportunities in the present. This is sometimes referred to as “the law of karma.” In Christian theology, it is contained in the phrase, “As you sow, so shall you reap.” Karma is the basis for the doctrine of reincarnation, and the idea that dissolving stored karma (samskaras) in the nervous system through yoga practices will unfold more happiness in this life, the next life, and eventually lead the soul to eternal life in the higher realms, freed from the necessity of taking human birth.
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Literally, "deed." A concept that binds its followers to an endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth and, according to one's deeds in life, determines the condition of one's rebirth.
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action. A central concept in yoga philosophy is that all actions carry effects which bear fruit or return to the doer, hence `The law of cause and effect`.
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(Sanskrit - 'act', 'deed', 'work'.) Karma is energy/consciousness in action; the law of cause and effect and retribution. “What goes around, comes around.” Also called the law of the circle, which decrees that whatever we do comes full circle to our doorstep for resolution. Paul said, “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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Physical action. Metaphysically, the law of retribution; the law of cause and effect, or ethical causation. There is the karma of merit and the karma of demerit. It is the power that controls all things, the resultant of moral action, or the moral effect of an act committed for the attainment of something which gratifies a personal desire.
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in Hinduism, the moral law of cause and effect that governs our actions in the world
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actions and deeds that will lead to consequences in this or future lifetimes
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The Hindu thought that whatever someone does will come back at a later date in this life or in transmigrations. Man attains salvation by worshipping God through performances of one's own duties (e.g., as a member of a caste system) as decided by the religious scriptures.
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A deed, good or bad. Upon maturing, it delivers its fruit. There are 4 Ghati and 4 Aghati types of Karmas. Effects of Ghati karmas are much stronger, and they last for many lives.
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Material action and its reactions.
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The effects of a person's past actions on his or her present and future state.
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literally 'action'; but tends to be used to mean the law of Karma and Vipaka 'action and results'. The Buddhist meaning is not quite the same as the Hindu.
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In Vedic religions, the ethical consequence of a person’s life, which determine his or here fate.
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Causality, evolutionary law of cause and effect, action with inevitable results.
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The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny. Good karma can be obtained by ordering your maps from Map Express.
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is action and reaction.
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Literally, "action." Often translated "cause and effect."
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The moral law of cause and effect that determines the direction of rebirth.
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In Hindu belief where the term originated, it is the idea that the good and evil a person does will return either in this life or in a later one. Among Pagans, the theory is that whatever negative or positive energies one sends out will come back to the sender in like kind. The "Three Fold Law" is a version of this belief.
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level: Introductory (1) [ order by level] The eastern religious "law" of action and reaction, cause and effect, by which an individual's actions combine to produce related results for that individual in the present and future lives.
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motivation behind an action
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"As you sow so shall you reap". The belief that all actions have a reaction. If you plant positive loving thoughts, so shall you reap that energy. If you plant negative doubtful thoughts , so shall you reap that energy. All actions are paid for in our karmic cycles.
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The 'spiritual bank balance' carried by the Individuality (q.v.) from one Incarnation (q.v.) to the next. The literal meaning of the word is 'action' or 'cause-and-effect'.
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Action; action's fruit; cause-effect relationship.
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Literally deed or phenomenon. Also short for the law of karma, or cause and effect. Actions have foreseeable and unforeseeable consequences.
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Action, both physical and mental, and the effects of the actions. Accordingly it can refer to the good or bad destiny, which one has earned through past actions.
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Basic concept common to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. The doctrine holds that one's state in this life is the result of physical and mental actions in past incarnations and that present action can determine one's destiny in future incarnations. Karma is a natural, impersonal law of moral cause and effect.
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the concept from the Hindu religion that actions are always followed by consequences. The development of "good karma" which is gained from performing good acts is central to the reincarnation belief that one pays for the sins of a previous lifetime.
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the effect a system's or a being's action on other systems or beings has on itself Karma implies that all beings are actually co-essential, because by affecting another one also affects oneself.
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The term denotes a highly complex system of actions and reactions weaving a ceaseless chain of cause and effect resulting from a thoughtless thought, an inadvertently uttered word or an unintended deed, for each of these has a potential to fructify, not only in this lifetime but even in lives to come; though one may in blessed forgetfulness, fail to find the link and call it a mere 'chance.'[ " Wheel of Life" in the book section, is an entire book on the subject of karma
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(Sanskrit, "action"). Moral law of cause and effect in which good actions have good effects and bad actions have bad effects. A Hindu concept that was absorbed, largely unchanged, into Buddhism.
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The law of cause and effect, or the movement toward the balance of conciousness everything we do, way, or think has an immediate effect on the universe and this will reverberate back to us in some way.
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