Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Oct. 2009
For some Darmic religions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism, Karma is a beginning that maintains that the behavior that an individual has in one life will influence the successive ones that he has. Because karma is the Energy that derives from the acts of a person and is the one that will also condition each of the reincarnations until reaching perfection.
For both doctrines, Buddhism and Hinduism, karma not only involves physical actions, but there are three factors that will generate reactions: actions, words and thoughts. Furthermore, they assume that by practice active and in accordance with the corresponding religions, people will be able to escape their Karma and thus free themselves from the four sufferings: birth, disease, old age and death.
Theistic religions such as Hinduism or Christianity, which believe in the notion of the soul, hold that the Reincarnation is the presence of the person's soul in a new physical body, which is the same as saying, the transmigration of the soul.
So Karma is basically that which determines the conditions under which the subject, or his soul, comes back to life. Meanwhile, Hinduism and Buddhism firmly believe that there is a state of purity and wisdom inside each person that remains intact and that never stops developing.
The sages or gurus of the aforementioned doctrines believe and assure that those realized beings can remember their past lives without equivocation, something that ordinary people will never be able to do. The memories, in any case, remain hidden and stored inside each being.
Some Buddhist schools hold that it is through meditation that one can reach the state of superconsciousness, better known as Nirvana, which represents the end of existence conditioned by the Karma.
On the other hand, the term Karma, in popular culture, is usually associated with destiny or force spiritual, as appropriate. That's why we usually hear expressions of this type: divorced men are my karma, if there is a recurrence in the person to choose divorced men.
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