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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bitter Truth" data-source="post: 30441926" data-attributes="member: 555686">Karma (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" target="_blank">/ˈkɑːrmə/</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_language" target="_blank">Sanskrit</a>: कर्म, IPA: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Sanskrit" target="_blank">[ˈkɐɾmɐ]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Karma.ogg" target="_blank">ⓘ</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_language" target="_blank">Pali</a>: kamma) is an ancient Indian concept that refers to an action, work, or deed, and its effect or consequences.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[1]</a> In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_religions" target="_blank">Indian religions</a>, the term more specifically refers to a principle of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cause_and_effect" target="_blank">cause and effect</a>, often descriptively called the principle of karma, wherein individuals' intent and actions (cause) influence their future (effect):<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma#cite_note-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> Good intent and good deeds contribute to good karma and happier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation" target="_blank">rebirths</a>, while bad intent and bad deeds contribute to bad karma and worse rebirths. In some scriptures, however, there is no link between rebirth and karma.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma#cite_note-halbfass2000-3" target="_blank">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma#cite_note-4" target="_blank">[4]</a> Karma is often misunderstood as fate, destiny, or predetermination.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma#cite_note-5" target="_blank">[5]</a> Fate, destiny or predetermination has specific terminology in Sanskrit and is called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prarabdha_karma" target="_blank">Prarabdha</a>.The concept of karma is closely associated with the idea of rebirth in many schools of Indian religions (particularly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_in_Hinduism" target="_blank">in Hinduism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_in_Buddhism" target="_blank">Buddhism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_in_Jainism" target="_blank">Jainism</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism" target="_blank">Sikhism</a>),<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma#cite_note-KarmaParveshSingla-6" target="_blank">[6]</a> as well as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism" target="_blank">Taoism</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma#cite_note-evawong-7" target="_blank">[7]</a> In these schools, karma in the present affects one's future in the current life as well as the nature and quality of future lives—one's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81ra" target="_blank">saṃsāra</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma#cite_note-jbowker-8" target="_blank">[8]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma#cite_note-jamesloch-9" target="_blank">[9]</a> This concept has also been adopted in Western popular culture, in which the events that happen after a person's actions may be considered natural consequences of those actions.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma</a></blockquote>

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