Khuutra said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Well technically the term bad and good karma are misnomers, as Karma is merely a system of action and reaction, what goes around comes around, basically every action you perform has an effect back upon yourself. |
....First off, if that were the case then the application of "karma" to this situation is appropriate, since the advertiser is doing a bad thing (selling acessories at outrageous prices) and a bad thing happens to them (ruined TV).
Secondly, that's not what karma is. Karma is the accruement of positive or negative deeds or energy which will be used to determine one's station in the next life, assuming that one's cosmology is one that includes reincarnation. If it doesn't, then you don't believe in karma.
Thirdly:
Man, that is a bummer. Is that the kind of thing one gets fired for? I don't know.
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Nope, that is an incomplete and limited understanding of Karma
From Wikipedia:
"Karma" literally means "deed" or "act", and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction, which Hindus believe governs all consciousness.[4], Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us that 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 determine our future. 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.[4] We produce Karma in four ways [5]:
through thoughts
through words
through actions that we perform ourselves
through actions others do under our instructions
Everything that we have ever thought, spoken, done or caused is Karma; as is also that which we think, speak or do this very moment.[6] Hindu scriptures divide karma into three kinds [6] :
Sanchita is the accumulated karma. It would be impossible to experience and endure all Karmas in one life. From this stock of sanchita karma, a handful is taken out to serve one lifetime and this handful of actions, which has begun to bear fruit and which will be exhausted only on their fruit being enjoyed and not otherwise, is known as prarabdha karma.
Prarabdha Fruit-bearing karma is the portion of accumulated karma that has "ripened" and appears as a particular problem in the present life.
Kriyamana is everything that we produce in current life. All kriyamana karmas flow in to sanchita karma and consequently shape our future. Only in human life we can change our future destiny. After death we loose Kriya Shakti (ability to act) and do (kriyamana) karma until we are born again in human body.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_in_Hinduism
