Karma Glossary

[Guest guest]

Here is a Karma Glossary taken from the website

<a href=http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/karma.html.

target=new>http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/karma.html.</a> This is with

reference to the chat sessions that

we are having as a part of our weekly chat

sessions.<br><br>Karma Glossary<br><br>karmabhanda: The bonds of

actions, i.e., being bound to rebirth. <br>karmadosha:

Sinful work or vice, blunder; evil consequences.

<br>karmadushta: Corrupt in action. <br>karmaja: Act-born;

resulting or produced from an act, good or bad.

<br>karmajiva: Livelihood earned by work, trade, profession.

<br>karmakshaya: Annihilation of work. <br>karmakshetra: Place of

religious acts. <br>karmanirhara: The removal of bad deeds

or their effects. <br>karmanishtha: Diligent in

performing religious actions. <br>karmapaka: Ripening of

acts, matured results of acts of former births.

<br>karmaphala: The fruit of actions. <br>karmarambha: The

commencement of an act. <br>karmashaya: "Holder of karma."

Describes body of the soul. <br>karmasamya: Equipoise of

karma. <br>karmasiddhi: Successful action.

<br>karmatyaga: Abandoning worldly duties and obligations.

<br>karmavasha: The necessary influence or repercussion of

actions. <br>karmavidhi: Rule of action; mode of

conducting ceremonies. <br>karmayoga: "Union through

action;" selfless religious service. <br>kriyamana karma:

Actions being made. Karma being created. <br>papa:

Wickedness, sin, crime. Wrongful action. Demerit from

wrongdoing. <br>prayaschitta: Penance. "Predominant thought

or aim; weighing heavily on the mind." <br>prarabdha

karma: Actions set in motion. Sanchita karma released to

bear fruit in one's current life. <br>punya: Holy,

virtuous; auspicious. Meritorious action. <br>sanchita

karma: The entirety of all karmas of this life and past

lives.

[Guest guest]

Blessed Self, Baburoy<br><br>Thanks for the

informative glossary of karma terms.<br><br>Spiritweb left

out a very important aspect of karma: namely, agami

or vartamana karma, which is the karma that is

acquired during the present life-time. The Spiritweb

definition of sanchita karma is correct but agami karma is a

special kind of sanchita karma.<br><br>All entities have

three qualities: tamas or the tendency to inaction,

rajas or the tendency to action, sattva or the tendency

to spiritual joy and knowledge. These qualities have

karmic consequences:<br><br>Sattvic karma is action

prescribed by tradition and performed without

attachment;<br><br>Rajas karma is action performed out of ego-sense in

order to experience pleasure;<br><br>tamas karma is

action performed by a deluded, confused person who has

no concern for the moral and spiritual consequences

of the action.<br><br>Tamas karma is prevalent in

both the East and West as a result of the events

leading up to Sept. 11 and its aftermath.<br><br>The

Puranas and Srimad bhagavata have lots of information on

specific karmas and their consequences.<br><br>omprem