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Rules Summary: Many & Various Definitions of Karma

Temporal Definitions of Karma
These are definitions of karma which describe the time aspects of karma: how karma progresses over time (build up and burn off).

1. Sanchita Karma: the accumulated result of all your actions from all your past lifetimes. This is your total cosmic debt. Every moment of every day either you are adding to it or you are reducing this cosmic debt.

2. Prarabdha Karma: the portion of your "sanchita" karma being worked on in the present life. If you work down your agreed upon debt in this lifetime, then more past debts surface to be worked on.

3. Agami Karma: the portion of actions in the present life that add to your "sanchita" karma. If you fail to work off your debt, then more debts are added to "sanchita" karma and are sent to future lives.

4. Kriyamana Karma: daily, instant karma created in this life that is worked off immediately. These are debts that are created and worked off - ie. you do wrong, you get caught and you spend time in jail.

Personal Definitions of Karma
These are definitions of karma which describe the personal aspects of karma: how karma applies directly to individuals' lives.

1. Primal (Seed) Karma: When an individual first incarnated, they received a "load" of karma (unmerited by actions) to propel them on their unique journey through cycles of reincarnation to unfold in Soul awareness.

2. Choice (Action) Karma: After an individual incarnates, they create karma by their choices: through their thoughts, through their words, through their actions, and through their directions (how they direct others to think, speak, and act).

3. Good Karma: From the human standpoint, the positive benefit received in material existence, where one receives pleasing results (such as vibrant physical health, financial success, relationship happiness, etc).

4. Bad Karma: From the human standpoint, the negative blow-back received in material existence, where one receives unpleasant results (such as physical illness, financial failure, relationship heart-ache, etc).

Popular Definitions of Karma
These are definitions of karma which are catch phrases in the popular imagination: these are often how karma is best known.

1. What goes around, comes around.

2. What you bring hate into, you will reincarnate into.

3. Your beliefs-thoughts-emotions create your reality.

4. Everything happens for a reason.

5. What you think about, you bring about.

6. What you bring into the lives of others comes back into your own.

Religious Definitions of Karma
These are definitions of karma which religions use to describe the effects of karma: their belief system about karma.

1. General: "actions" or "deeds" which causes the entire cycle of "samsara" (cause and effect driving reincarnation) to unfold through time.

2. Buddhism: any action creates "seeds" in the energy field that, when springing from unloving motives, keeps the individual bound to the wheel of samsara, but when springing from loving kindness, helps to liberate them to nirvana.

3. Christianity: "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." (Galatians 6:7)

4. Confucianism: reciprocity is used instead of karma: "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others" says Confucius.

5. Hinduism: karma is neither punishment nor retribution: it is the result of the cause and effect of deeds or acts and it governs all life.

6. Islam: "Disasters have spread throughout the land and sea, because of [the sins] the people have committed. [God] thus lets them taste the consequences of some of their works, that they may turn back [from evil]." (Koran 30:41)

7. Jainism: karma is attracted to the energy field of an individual due to the vibrations created by their activities of thought, speech, and action.

8. Sikhism: karma ensures we reap exactly what we sow in a precise and infallible manner so that the individual assumes total responsibility for their life.

9. Taoism: karma guides the "continuity of existence without limitation" (birth is not a beginning and death is not an end).

10. Theosophy: the beneficial or harmful effects one creates will return to them.

Secular Definitions of Karma
These are definitions of karma current in the mainstream which define karma without using the "karma" word.

1. We get what we agree to deserve. (Dr Phil)

2. What we fear, we create. (Dr Phil)

3. "Those who dwell in the past, rob the present. Those who ignore the past, destroy the future." (Chinese Proverb)

4. "People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead." (Edith Wharton)

5. "Though the mills of the God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly small: though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness He grinds them all." (Friedrich von Logan)

6. Karma is the operating system software of the Soul and runs the hardware - body, mind, emotions - provided by reincarnation.

Scientific Definitions of Karma
These are definitions of karma current in the scientific community which define karma without using the "karma" word.

1. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. (Newton's Third Law)

2. The scientific method searches for cause and effect relationships in nature. Scientists design experiments so that changes to one item cause something else to vary in a predictable way.

Credits: from channeled information. Note: the Tibetan Auspicious Knot (see image by Secular) symbolises the nature of life where everyone and everything is deeply interrelated and only exists as part of a web of karma and its effects.