Karma (Action and Its Fruit)

Karma means 'action,' and as a doctrine it is the moral law that every weighted deed bears fruit for the one who does it — if not now, then later, even in a future life. It is not blind fate but a kind of cosmic accounting of cause and effect in the moral realm: our present condition reflects past action, and present action shapes what comes. Karma is the engine that keeps the round of rebirth turning until it is finally exhausted in liberation.