karma

Karma is the destiny that you earn through your actions and behavior. (noun)

When you behave kindly, this is an example of a situation where you earn good karma that will result in good things happening to you in the future.

See karma in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Buddhism, Hinduism the totality of a person's actions in any one of the successive states of that person's existence, thought of as determining the fate of the next stage
loosely fate; destiny

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See karma in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(kärˈmə)

noun

Hinduism & Buddhism The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny.
Fate; destiny.
Informal A distinctive aura, atmosphere, or feeling: There's bad karma around the house today.

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