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Karma

noun

(Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation.

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"Karma" Quotes from Famous Books

... in individual immortality any criterion. Theosophists, rejecting vicarious atonement so sternly that they insist that the smallest of our sins brings its Karma, also insist on individual immortality and metempsychosis in order to provide an unlimited field for Karma to be worked out by the unredeemed sinner. The belief in the prolongation of individual life beyond the grave is far more real and vivid among table-rapping ...

— Preface to Androcles and the Lion - On the Prospects of Christianity • George Bernard Shaw

... usually with prayer rituals within their own home. The most common figures of devotion are the gods Vishnu, Shiva, and a mother goddess, Devi. Most Hindus believe the soul, or atman, is eternal, and goes through a cycle of birth, death, and rebirth (samsara) determined by one's positive or negative karma, or the consequences of one's actions. The goal of religious life is to learn to act so as to finally achieve liberation (moksha) of one's ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Words linked to "Karma" : Hinduism, Buddhism, fate, destiny, Hindooism