Karma is a Sanskrit voice that means action or fact, it is a fundamental law for Hinduism and Buddhism, which governs the successive reincarnations of a person, conditioning the events and circumstances that affect him in his life according to accumulated, positive actions and negative, which he performed in previous lives, these actions contributed to creating what is called dharma of an individual in the present or "assigned" tasks in this life. The concept of karma is then considered as the law of cause and effect applied to human life.; that is to say, what we are is determined by what we were, and what we will be by what we are today. The words of a Buddhist define that pleasure and pain derive from our past actions; "If you act well, everything will be fine." "If you act bad, everything will go bad . "
The belief in karma, which can be traced back to the Upanisad, is accepted by all Hindus, although they differ on many points: some aspire to accumulate good karma and good rebirth, but others, considering that all karma is bad, seek to liberate it from it. rebirth process ( samsara ); Some believe that karma establishes everything that happens to one, while others attribute a more important role to destiny, divine intervention, or human effort.
Karma appears in three aspects: Sanchita , which is the sum or result of the acts committed in previous incarnations; Prarabda , which are the acts of the current incarnation, which are subject to the influence of the previous life and the exercise of free will in it; and Agami , which are future, unrealized acts. Thus, the progress of the soul from one incarnation to another is conditioned by the mixture of free will, karma and destiny.
