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!["Karma: (noun) Action. Effect. Consequence.
In its most basic form, karma is the universal moral law of cause and effect – every action has a consequence. Reference to this is found in many different faiths: Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism all have variations on the theme of karma.
According to the law of karma, souls reincarnate in environments befitting their spiritual attainments. Good people (even those who have veered from the spiritual path) go, when they die, to the heaven of those who do good deeds. They dwell there for a number of years and then take birth again, this time into a home that is pure and prosperous. A few of them will be born into a family that is spiritually advanced, but such births are difficult to obtain. When this happens, the good environment draws out their latent spirituality and leads them rapidly toward liberation.[i]
In 1686 Isaac Newton presented three laws of motion, the third of these is somewhat similar to karma; every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Except in karma, the reaction is not opposite but rather more of the same: The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad states that those who do good become good; those who do harm become bad[ii] and in the Bhagavad Gita[iii] Krishna gives a dire warning about the consequences of being stuck in the spider web of delusion leading to further delusion.
The Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali all consider the role of karma in conjunction with the transmigration of the soul.
Whilst we are manifest in (and attached to) the world, all our actions have an impact and a consequence.
The consequences of these actions are used by the universe to dictate the circumstances of our current life; including parents, nationality, gender, physicality, and psychology. This is ‘prarabdha’ karma..."
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