#Karma broadly defined as the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction which governs our all life actions. Karma is a natural law of the mind, just as gravity is a law of matter which attracts thoughts and actions.

Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us, if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and previous lives,

all of which determines our future. It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating. The conquest of karma lies in intelligent action and dispassionate reaction.

Not all karmas rebound immediately. Some accumulate and return unexpectedly in this or other births. The several kinds of karma are: personal, family, community, national, global and universal. Ancient rishis perceived personal karma’s three-fold edict.

The first is sanchita, the sum total of past karmas yet to be resolved. The second is prarabdha, that portion of sanchita to be experienced in this life. Kriyamana, the third type, is karma we are currently creating.

Is There Good Karma and Bad Karma?
In the highest sense, there is no good or bad karma. All the experience offers opportunities for spiritual growth. Selfless acts yield positive, uplifting conditions. Selfish acts yield conditions of negativity.

Karama springing from the root “Kri” – “to do” or “to make” or more simply, “action”. The deeper meaning of Karma can be described as an infinite chain of the results of an action that is perceived and performed. Karma is a concept of wisdom,

based on the Ancient Vedas and Upanishads, which explains a system where beneficial events are derived from past beneficial actions and harmful events from past harmful actions, creating a chain of actions and reactions throughout a person’s reincarnated lives.

When we talk about “Our Karma” we’re talking about the actions we’ve “sown” or performed in the past (including our past lives) that are the cause of what we “reap” in our current life situation. This either becomes our Karmic Burden or Karmic Baggage or our Karmic Blessing

depending on whether we’ve performed positive or negative actions in the past.Every action, either physical, emotional or mental, every movement occurring either on the plane of gross matter (School am) or on the astral planes (Sookshma), causes emission of Energy.

In other words, it produces a Seed.
Being a Seed, Karma fructifies or does not fructify immediately after it is sown. The innumerable Karmic Seeds we produce by our various actions – desire, aversion, love, hatred, happiness, etc. will undoubtedly produce, sooner or later,

a positive or negative result according to the nature of the seed, if not in this life, then in some future one.The Vedas propound, “Here they say that a person consists of desires. And as is his desire, so is his will. As is his will, so is his deed.

Whatever deed he does, that he will reap.”Karma should not be confused with Fate. Fate is the notion that man’s life is preplanned for him by some external power, and he has no control over his destiny. Karma, on the other hand, can be corrected.

Because man is a Conscious Being and he can be aware of his Karma and thus strive to change the course of events, with the help of superior powers