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	'''Karma''' (devanāgarī: कर्म) is a Sanskrit term that "action" or "deed." In in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh religions karma refers to a law that regulates causes and effects.		'''Karma''' (devanāgarī: कर्म) is a Sanskrit term that "action" or "deed." In in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh religions karma refers to a law that regulates causes and effects.
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	"Karma is the restoration of a primordial equilibrium disturbed by the action of personal free-will."<ref>Claude Bragdon, "Karma Defined" ''The American Theosophist'' 65.9 (September 1977), 258. Bragdon noted that he had heard this definition from a young Hindu who had learned it from his master.</ref>		"Karma is the restoration of a primordial equilibrium disturbed by the action of personal free-will."<ref>Claude Bragdon, "Karma Defined" ''The American Theosophist'' 65.9 (September 1977), 258. Bragdon noted that he had heard this definition from a young Hindu who had learned it from his master.</ref>

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	[[H. P. Blavatsky]] defined it as follows:		[[H. P. Blavatsky]] defined it as follows:

	<blockquote>'''Karma''' (Sk.). Physically, action: metaphysically, the LAW OF RETRIBUTION, the Law of cause and effect or Ethical Causation. Nemesis, only in one sense, that of bad Karma. It is the eleventh Nidana in the concatenation of causes and effects in orthodox Buddhism; yet it is the power that controls all things, the resultant of moral action, the meta physical Samskâra, or the moral effect of an act committed for the attainment of something which gratifies a personal desire. There is the Karma of merit and the Karma of demerit. Karma neither punishes nor rewards, it is simply the one Universal LAW which guides unerringly, and, so to say, blindly, all other laws productive of certain effects along the grooves of their respective causations. When Buddhism teaches that "Karma is that moral kernel (of any being) which alone survives death and continues in transmigration" or reincarnation, it simply means that there remains nought after each Personality but the causes produced by it; causes which are undying, i.e., which cannot be eliminated from the Universe until replaced by their legitimate effects, and wiped out by them, so to speak, and such causes—unless compensated during the life of the person who produced them with adequate effects, will follow the reincarnated Ego, and reach it in its subsequent reincarnation until a harmony between effects and causes is fully reestablished. No “personality”—a mere bundle of material atoms and of instinctual and mental characteristics—can of course continue, as such, in the world of pure Spirit. Only that which is immortal in its very nature and divine in its essence, namely, the Ego, can exist for ever. And as it is that Ego which chooses the personality it will inform, after each Devachan, and which receives through these personalities the effects of the Karmic causes produced, it is therefore the Ego, that self which is the “moral kernel” referred to and embodied karma, “which alone survives death.”<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 173-174.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>'''Karma''' (Sk.). Physically, action; metaphysically, the LAW OF RETRIBUTION, the Law of cause and effect or Ethical Causation. Nemesis, only in one sense, that of bad Karma. It is the eleventh Nidana in the concatenation of causes and effects in orthodox Buddhism; yet it is the power that controls all things, the resultant of moral action, the meta physical Samskâra, or the moral effect of an act committed for the attainment of something which gratifies a personal desire. There is the Karma of merit and the Karma of demerit. Karma neither punishes nor rewards, it is simply the one Universal LAW which guides unerringly, and, so to say, blindly, all other laws productive of certain effects along the grooves of their respective causations. When Buddhism teaches that "Karma is that moral kernel (of any being) which alone survives death and continues in transmigration" or reincarnation, it simply means that there remains nought after each Personality but the causes produced by it; causes which are undying, i.e., which cannot be eliminated from the Universe until replaced by their legitimate effects, and wiped out by them, so to speak, and such causes—unless compensated during the life of the person who produced them with adequate effects, will follow the reincarnated Ego, and reach it in its subsequent reincarnation until a harmony between effects and causes is fully reestablished. No “personality”—a mere bundle of material atoms and of instinctual and mental characteristics—can of course continue, as such, in the world of pure Spirit. Only that which is immortal in its very nature and divine in its essence, namely, the Ego, can exist for ever. And as it is that Ego which chooses the personality it will inform, after each Devachan, and which receives through these personalities the effects of the Karmic causes produced, it is therefore the Ego, that self which is the “moral kernel” referred to and embodied karma, “which alone survives death.”<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Theosophical Glossary'' (Krotona, CA: Theosophical Publishing House, 1973), 173-174.</ref></blockquote>

	Karma being a universal law, its effects cannot be erased by rituals, meditations, or spiritual beings. Mme. Blavatsky wrote:		Karma being a universal law, its effects cannot be erased by rituals, meditations, or spiritual beings. Mme. Blavatsky wrote:

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	*[https://archive.org/details/118901/1189_01.flac# Cosmic Order and Karma] by Bing Escudero		*[https://archive.org/details/118901/1189_01.flac# Cosmic Order and Karma] by Bing Escudero
	*[https://ia801400.us.archive.org/19/items/basicteachingsoftheosophykarmiclawsandrebirthcycles/Basic%20Teachings%20of%20Theosophy%20Karmic%20Laws%20and%20Rebirth%20Cycles.mp3# Karmic Laws and Rebirth Cycles] by Bing Escudero		*[https://ia801400.us.archive.org/19/items/basicteachingsoftheosophykarmiclawsandrebirthcycles/Basic%20Teachings%20of%20Theosophy%20Karmic%20Laws%20and%20Rebirth%20Cycles.mp3# Karmic Laws and Rebirth Cycles] by Bing Escudero
	*[http://www.old.theosophical.org/files/resources/Downloads/mp3/kunz/Karma%20and%20Human%20Relations.mp3# Karma and Human Relations] by Dora Kunz
	*[https://archive.org/download/1111_20190810/1111.mp3# The Role of Karma in Life] by Dora Kunz		*[https://archive.org/download/1111_20190810/1111.mp3# The Role of Karma in Life] by Dora Kunz
	*[https://archive.org/download/karmadharmajourneymills/KarmaDharmaJourney_Mills.mp3# Karma-Dharma: Two Keys to the Heroic Journey] by Joy Mills		*[https://archive.org/download/karmadharmajourneymills/KarmaDharmaJourney_Mills.mp3# Karma-Dharma: Two Keys to the Heroic Journey] by Joy Mills

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	*[https://ia803209.us.archive.org/10/items/karma-the-law-of-opportunity-algeo/Karma%20the%20Law%20of%20Opportunity_Algeo.mp3# Karma: The Law of Opportunity] by John Algeo		*[https://ia803209.us.archive.org/10/items/karma-the-law-of-opportunity-algeo/Karma%20the%20Law%20of%20Opportunity_Algeo.mp3# Karma: The Law of Opportunity] by John Algeo
	*[https://www.old.theosophical.org/files/resources/Downloads/mp3/algeo/Freedom,%20Order,%20and%20the%20Law%20of%20Karma.mp3# Freedom, Order, and the Law of Karma] by John Algeo
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	*[https://ia801400.us.archive.org/19/items/basicteachingsoftheosophykarmiclawsandrebirthcycles/Basic%20Teachings%20of%20Theosophy%20Karmic%20Laws%20and%20Rebirth%20Cycles.mp3# Karmic Laws and Rebirth Cycles] by Bing Escudero		*[https://ia801400.us.archive.org/19/items/basicteachingsoftheosophykarmiclawsandrebirthcycles/Basic%20Teachings%20of%20Theosophy%20Karmic%20Laws%20and%20Rebirth%20Cycles.mp3# Karmic Laws and Rebirth Cycles] by Bing Escudero