karma

The totality of a person’s actions and conduct during successive incarnations, regarded as causally influencing his or her destiny.

The law or principle through which such influence is believed to operate.

Fate or destiny resulting from one’s previous actions.

A distinctive aura, atmosphere, or feeling.

In Hindu religion, one’s action or acts considered as determining his lot after death and in a following existence; the aggregate of merits and demerits of a sentient being in one of his successive existences.

In theosophy: The doctrine of fate, destiny, or necessity as an invariable sequence of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence, In the concrete, the result of one’s actions; that which happens to one for better or worse, in matters over which one may exercise any choice or volition.

One’s acts considered as fixing one’s lot in the future existence.

The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect, especially the principle by which a person is rewarded or punished in a subsequent incarnation for deeds in the previous incarnation; the theory of inevitable consequence.

One’s destiny; fate.