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karma

karma

127 5.4
Result of a person's actions that affects their future lives
  • noun
  • /ˈkɑːrmə/
translation icon : karma
  • The pendulum of karma swings both ways.
  • bad karma
  • good karma
  • law of karma

The trick of all of this is to not let their karma destroy yours.

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Examples

  • I know about karma, and I know what goes around comes around.

  • Through what chain of karma have they found this happiness, while I have not?

    Fiction book (1996)
  • So sometimes we call it as a good karma and and bad karma.

  • Because it was the return of the karma and it was all changing.

  • If you see, my life is my karma, you will take charge of your life.

  • And they take their bad karma with them into the next life.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • The trick of all of this is to not let their karma destroy yours.

  • Because kindness is practical and karma is ROI positive.

  • It's my karma.

  • According to Buddhist beliefs, good actions create positive karma for future lives.

Synonyms

kamma
vskarma
  • Specialized
1 9.9

The results that good or bad actions have on a person's future life

treats actions as a cumulative total that decides fate in future existences

Surface Forms

karma singular
karmas plural

Etymology

Karma comes from an old Indian word meaning 'action' or 'deed'. In Hinduism and Buddhism it is the idea that your actions bring future results, so good deeds are thought to bring good karma in later lives.