Karma is the energy that is released from one's actions and that conditions reincarnation.
According to linguistic experts, karma is a word of Sanskrit origin that translates into Spanish as "action" or "deed." From the perspective of some Dharmic religions , such as Buddhism and Hinduism , karma constitutes the energy that is released from each of the individual 's actions and that conditions each of their reincarnations until perfection is achieved.
The laws of karma , therefore, are based on the idea that each reincarnation is influenced by acts performed in previous lives. Words and thoughts, for their part, also condition karma.
Karma and reincarnation
Theistic religions that trust in the existence of a soul believe that reincarnation is the transfer of a person's soul into another physical structure. It is, in short, a kind of transmigration of the soul.
Karma, then, is that which manages to establish the conditions under which the individual (or his soul) will return to life. Buddhism and Hinduism, however, believe that there is a state of wisdom and purity within each human being that remains intact and never stops developing.
The notion of karma is present in Hinduism.
Consequences of actions
In this sense, it is established that everything you have done in previous lives will be reflected in one way or another in the following ones. Thus, for example, if a person now suffers from a series of malformations or physical ailments, it is because in the past, when they had another identity, they harmed someone by mistreating them or wounding them with a weapon.
And the same thing happens in the opposite direction. That is, it is considered that if you previously carried out various positive and beneficial actions, in your new life you will enjoy, in one way or another, everything good and positive that you did back then.
Knowledge of past lives, nirvana and karma
Some gurus claim that realized beings have the ability to remember their past lives; Ordinary people, on the other hand, cannot do it. The memory remains, in any case, stored and hidden inside the being.
Several Buddhist schools consider that, through meditation , it is possible to achieve a level of superconsciousness that is defined as nirvana . This state represents the end of a life governed by karma.
From East and West
In addition to all this, it is important that we know that the process of expansion of karma throughout the world has its highest point in the 19th century when, on the part of Europe, different colonizing actions began that linked their culture with that of the countries and places that they made their own.
In this way, the West began to be significantly influenced by religions such as Buddhism or Hinduism, which resulted in the assimilation of ideas such as this karma that we are now addressing.
Among the most important historical figures who are considered to have agreed and favored these principles that we are developing is Mahatma Gandhi. A true national hero in India who always fought to end injustice and did so using peace and dialogue.
Finally, it must be said that, in popular culture, karma is associated with spiritual force or destiny . For example: "I got divorced again, it seems like it's my karma."