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noun

Karma n.

(Buddhism, Hinduism) One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence.

(Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect, especially the principle by which a person is rewarded or punished in a subsequent incarnation for deeds in the previous incarnation; the theory of inevitable consequence.

One's destiny; fate.

(Mysticism) The supposed non-physical emanations that a person gives off, which may affect other people; vibrations.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Karma" Quotes from Famous Books

... out." He uttered these words very emphatically and with so strange an intonation that they dissipated the rest of the dream, and I remember no more of it. But I did "think it out;" and I found it was a parable; of Karma. ...

— Dreams and Dream Stories • Anna (Bonus) Kingsford

... no potion I have not tasted Of all the bitters in life's large store; And never a drop of the gall was wasted That the lords of Karma saw fit to pour, Though I cried as my Elder Brother before me, 'Father in heaven, let pass this cup!' And the only response from the still skies o'er me Was the brew held close for my ...

— Hello, Boys! • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... tons at ten cents per bale. This small sum allowed the greedy b——-to feel he had gotten the better of me. He needed that feeling far more than I needed to win the argument or to keep the few dollars Besides, the workings of self-applied justice that some religious philosophers call karma show that over the long haul the worst thing one person can do to another is to allow the other to get away ...

— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon

... simply and mathematically, proves the direction of his former desires. Karma does not punish or reward, as ...

— Cosmic Consciousness • Ali Nomad

... full astral vision, would see in the immensely wider world to which that vision introduced him; but I have said nothing of the stupendous change in his mental attitude which comes from the experiential certainty as to the existence of the soul, its survival after death, the action of the law of karma, and other points of equally paramount importance. The difference between even the profoundest intellectual conviction and the precise knowledge gained by direct personal experience must be felt in ...

— Clairvoyance • Charles Webster Leadbeater

... 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 ...

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

... effect was, that on the death of the imperfect man, another finite existence of some sort necessarily took his place. But this new finite existence was not the former man. It is only on the death of him who has attained Nirvana that Karma ceases to act, and no new finite existence ...

— Pantheism, Its Story and Significance - Religions Ancient And Modern • J. Allanson Picton

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