In contrast, a samskara ( Sanskrit: а¤ёа¤‚а¤ёаҐЌа¤•а¤ѕа¤°) is an invisible effect, produced inside the actor because of the karma, transforming the agent and affecting his or her ability to be happy or unhappy in their current and future lives. 'fruit' or 'result') is the visible or invisible effect that is typically immediate or within the current life. The consequence or effects of one's karma can be described in two forms: phala and samskara. The effect of karma need not be immediate the effect of karma can be later in one's current life, and in some schools it extends to future lives. This effect may be material, moral, or emotional-that is, one's karma affects both one's happiness and unhappiness. Thus, good karma produces good effect on the actor, while bad karma produces bad effect. ДЄnother causality characteristic, shared by karmic theories, is that like deeds lead to like effects. In Buddhism, for example, actions that are performed, or arise, or originate without any bad intent such as covetousness, are considered non-existent in karmic impact or neutral in influence to the individual. Disinterested actions, or unintentional actions do not have the same positive or negative karmic effect, as interested and intentional actions. The theory of karma as causation holds that: (1) executed actions of an individual affects the individual and the life he or she lives, and (2) the intentions of an individual affects the individual and the life he or she lives. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 7th century BCE The law of karma operates independent of any deity or any process of divine judgment. These actions may be those in a person's current life, or, in some schools of Indian traditions, possibly actions in their past lives furthermore, the consequences may result in current life, or a person's future lives. Other Indologists include in the definition that which explains the present circumstances of an individual with reference to his or her actions in past. Different schools of Indology derive different definitions for the concept from ancient Indian texts their definition is some combination of (1) causality that may be ethical or non-ethical (2) ethicization, i.e., good or bad actions have consequences and (3) rebirth. In the context of theory, karma is complex and difficult to define. Karma also refers to a conceptual principle that originated in India, often descriptively called the principle of karma, and sometimes the karma theory or the law of karma.

Wendy O'Flaherty claims that, furthermore, there is an ongoing debate regarding whether karma is a theory, a model, a paradigm, a metaphor, or a metaphysical stance. It is a concept whose meaning, importance, and scope varies between the various traditions that originated in India, and various schools in each of these traditions. Thus, karma has not one, but multiple definitions and different meanings. Buddhism and Jainism have their own karma precepts. Дifficulty in arriving at a definition of karma arises because of the diversity of views among the schools of Hinduism some, for example, consider karma and rebirth linked and simultaneously essential, some consider karma but not rebirth to be essential, and a few discuss and conclude karma and rebirth to be flawed fiction. A bad action creates bad karma, as does bad intent. A good action creates good karma, as does good intent. Wilhelm Halbfass (2000) explains karma ( karman) by contrasting it with the Sanskrit word kriya: whereas kriya is the activity along with the steps and effort in action, karma is (1) the executed action as a consequence of that activity, as well as (2) the intention of the actor behind an executed action or a planned action (described by some scholars as metaphysical residue left in the actor). The term karma ( Sanskrit: а¤•а¤°аҐЌа¤® Pali: kamma) refers to both the executed 'deed, work, action, act' and the 'object, intent'. This concept has also been adopted in Western popular culture, in which the events which happen after a person's actions may be considered natural consequences. 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 saб№ѓsДЃra. The philosophy of karma is closely associated with the idea of rebirth in many schools of Indian religions (particularly Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism), as well as Taoism. The term also refers to the spiritual principle of cause and effect, often descriptively called the principle of karma, wherein intent and actions of an individual (cause) influence the future of that individual (effect): Good intent and good deeds contribute to good karma and happier rebirths, while bad intent and bad deeds contribute to bad karma and bad rebirths. Karma ( / Л€ k Й‘Лђr m Й™/ Sanskrit: а¤•а¤°аҐЌа¤®, IPA: ( listen) Pali: kamma) means action, work, or deed.

Karma motif