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Karma is a concept of the Vdic religions. It essentially defines the path of improvement to attain Nirvana. New Age religions in the West have adopted the works without the understanding.

  • In the West karma is seem to mean "You'll get what you deserve" This is somewhat of a cultural appropriation where a word is used without knowing what the originators of the word mean.
  • In Hinduism karma is the sum of the good and bad things a person does that determines his ability to enter Nirvana. Essentially a law of cause and effect. Human effort for improvement is not a factor.
  • In Buddhism it is more complex and the "law of cause ad effect \" is only one component. An individual; can be an active agent in his improvement. The flow or karma constituted effort, inner thoughts and circumstance,
  • Jainism started off with a rather hard nosed approach to karma. You had to work hard to improve your karmic progressn. This has modified in the present days to mean a persons intentions count as well as the action

In it's original connotation Karma might be taken as "path" or "method of progress"

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