Knowra Karma Karma Karma is the principle that intentional actions shape future experiences, especially across cycles of rebirth. Its meaning and operation differ among Indian religious and philosophical traditions.
Cetanā : Cetanā is intention or volition, a mental factor that directs the mind toward action. In Buddhist accounts, intention makes an action karmically consequential.
Dharma : Dharma is a foundational Indian concept encompassing teachings, duty, law, and the order of things. Karma is interpreted within traditions whose accounts of duty and reality differ.
Hinduism : Hinduism is a diverse family of Indian religious traditions with varied philosophies and practices. Hindu traditions connect karma with duty, rebirth, and liberation in differing ways.
Karma yoga : Karma yoga is a path of disciplined action, especially action performed without attachment to its fruits. The Bhagavad Gita presents it as a way to act without bondage to results.
Karma-phala : Karma-phala is the fruit or result of an action, understood as its eventual consequence. It names the consequence that connects karmic action with later experience.
Ātman : Ātman is the enduring self or deepest essence affirmed in several Indian philosophical traditions. Some Hindu accounts connect karma across lives through an enduring self.
Buddhism : Buddhism is a family of traditions founded on teachings associated with the Buddha. Buddhist accounts emphasize intention and reject a permanent self behind karmic continuity.
Karmic retribution : Karmic retribution is the idea that harmful actions eventually bring deserved suffering to their agent. This popular interpretation narrows karma to punishment and reward, unlike many traditional accounts.
Saṃsāra : Saṃsāra is the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth found in Indian religious traditions. Karma is often explained as shaping experience within this cycle.
Anattā : Anattā is the Buddhist teaching that no permanent, independent self exists. Buddhist accounts explain karmic continuity without an enduring self.
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