Synonyms for karma
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kahr-muh |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɑr mə |
Définition of karma
Origin :- 1827, in Buddhism, the sum of a person's actions in one life, which determine his form in the next; from Sanskrit karma "action, work, deed; fate," related to krnoti, Avestan kerenaoiti "makes," Old Persian kunautiy "he makes;" from PIE root *kwer- "to make, form," related to the second element in Sanskrit.
- noun destiny
- I must saturate myself with repose and with the underlying—with Karma.
- Extract from : « Jewel Weed » by Alice Ames Winter
- Karma is the Law of the Universe, the expression of divine Will.
- Extract from : « Reincarnation » by Th. Pascal
- And what have ye done to Karma, that he is so wet and silent?
- Extract from : « The Bridge-Builders » by Rudyard Kipling
- How can one substitute here a sameness of Karma for identity of soul?
- Extract from : « India, Its Life and Thought » by John P. Jones
- I soon discovered that, no matter how the wheel is turned, the Karma or merit is equal.
- Extract from : « Hilda Wade » by Grant Allen
- Equally unsatisfying is the statement that phenomena are aggregates of Karma.
- Extract from : « Exotics and Retrospectives » by Lafcadio Hearn
- She was now quite up in karma and entirely absorbed in the “Uplift.”
- Extract from : « The Gay Gnani of Gingalee » by Florence Huntley
- They talk about incarnations and "Karma," which sounds like the name of a salve to me.
- Extract from : « The Annals of Ann » by Kate Trimble Sharber
- The pupil asked: "If it is so, why is not one informed of one's Karma from the beginning?"
- Extract from : « Zones of the Spirit » by August Strindberg
- Yet that, Leilah, who had come to believe in karma, afterward regarded as fate.
- Extract from : « The Monster » by Edgar Saltus
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