karma (karman) (‘ act’, ‘ action’, ‘ activity’, ‘ rite’, ‘ motion’)
In its developed form, the lynchpin of a theory, or doctrine (‘the law of karma’), which attempts to account for the origins and nature of an individual's mortal existence and suffering in the light of his or her actions (karma), past and present. At its heart lies the perception that any action normally has an unavoidable, but usually post-mortem, effect on its agent, and that, depending on the ritual or ethical quality of that action, such an effect is either ‘good’ (... ...
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