For Karma we have terms and definitions in 15 topics. The topics are Astrology, Ayurvedic, Classic Yoga, Global History, Hinduism, Hippy, Holistic, Jain, New Age, Paranormal, Religion, Role Playing Games, Sanskrit, Sikhism and Yoga.

Karma (Astrology)

Cosmic cause and effect. Activities. Reaping the effects of past actions, including those from previous incarnations. The energies that are designed to awaken our spiritual awareness.

Karma (Ayurvedic)

Action; work; a complex concept, the word originally denoted a religious act or rite and gradually assumed other shades of meaning, as in, action, work, past actions as producing good or evil results; the accumulated effect of deeds in lives, past and present.

Karma (Classic Yoga)

(Sk.). The law of cause and effect as it works as one of the great principles of Cosmic Action.
Karma is action - it cannot be defined otherwise. (FW II, 395)
It is customary to consider Karma as retribution. But in its true significance Karma means labor. (INF I, 20)
Karma gathers the currents which are adapted to the affirmed improvement. When the spirit strains all efforts, the manifestation of the transmutation can develop the best possibilities. Only the adaptability to the karmic current provides the affirmed cosmic foundation. Thus, karma and striving give to humanity the essential impulses. Only the guidance of karma carries one to the step of Be-ness. Therefore, when man realized the power of karma and strives to express the best aspirations, his path is parallel with the universal energy. The universal energy attracts the creative strivings. The future and the Infinite are thus being built. (INF II, 159)
Great has been the discussion among scholars as to whether in Cosmos a return to the lowest state follows the attainment of the highest grade of development. It is wise to apply the understanding of karma to everything that evolves in Cosmos; not in the conception of karma customarily applied by humanity, that of a reward or settling of accounts, but of karma as the highest action which furthers evolution. All creative inceptions are predetermined by the law of this karma. Many inceptions do not apply to these laws, but the inception which takes place in realization of the karma of evolution lives in space and is carried forward by the currents of the Cosmic Magnet. (INF I, 310)
The action of consequences of that which is committed by man in deed, word and thought. (FB, p 109)
Karma acts as a life-generative force wherever the course of the luminaries is affirmed. The current of karma which is in line with evolution is revealed as a manifestation of the Cosmic Magnet. (INF I, 312)
Karma and Transmutation constitute factors which are directed toward progress, they create the effect by the propulsion of karma and they set the direction through transmutation of spirit. (INF I, 63)
Sometimes one can demonstrate the most complex laws by means of the simplest apparatus. The law of Karma is complex, but take the Ruhmkorff coil or any other electric coil and you will get an evident image of karma. The current runs along the spiral uninterruptedly but the protective winding is subject to all outside reactions. In addition, each thread contacts the thread of the preceding round, carrying upon itself the consequences of the past. Thus, each hour changes one’s karma, for each hour evokes the corresponding past. Thus, one may contact the entire line of past manifestations.
But the same obvious example shows how the seed of the spirit is unharmed; and striving into the heights it sustains its shell without fearing the past. Verily, karma is threatening only to those who are plunged into inaction. But a striving thought is liberated from the burden of the past and, like a heavenly body, strives forward without retreading its path. Thus, even with a difficult karma, one may evince a useful liberation. (Quoted from Hierarchy in LHR I, pp 74-75)
Individual karma is always the basic one. And firstly, it is formed by the inclinations, thoughts and motives of man - actions are secondary factors. The Buddhists say, "karma is thought". If it were otherwise, man could not rid himself of his karma. Verily, the individual karma, being fundamental and determinative, can influence the creation as well as the liquidation of all other types of karma. By injuring himself a person injures others. Everything is linked in the Cosmos; everything is intertwined, and nothing can be dismembered from all the rest of karma. Therefore, individual karma also cannot be dismembered from other types of karma, such as group karma, race karma, etc. It is said in the Teaching, "With difficulty do the sparks of creativeness seep through on the path of karma; and even less understood is the truth of karmic action. Not from without comes the proper estimation of karma. Every cell contains within itself its karma. The spirit carries its achievement and weapon within." (LHR I, p 197)
see also Rhumkorf’s Coil, Shore, Dates

Karma (Global History)

In Indian tradition, the residue of deeds performed in past and present lives that adheres to a "spirit" and determines what form it will assume in its next life cycle. The doctrines of karma and reincarnation were used by the elite in ancient India to encourage people to accept their social position and do their duty. (p. 177)

Karma (Hinduism)

Literally 'action' but also the law of cause and effect; action and reaction

Karma (Hippy)

Indian term for fate. You reap what you sow. Our condition in this life is a result of the action we made in past lives. We reincarnate until we free ourselves from our Karmic indebtedness.

Karma (Holistic)

Basic concept common to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. The doctrine holds that one’s state in this life is the result of physical and mental actions in past incarnations and that present action can determine one’s destiny in future incarnations. Karma is a natural, impersonal law of moral cause and effect.

Karma (Jain)

Action

Karma (New Age)

Literally "action"The metaphysical law of cause and effect, the belief that the energy of the thought will produce motion or results. It is the law of compensation, but should not be considered either good nor bad, but rather educational. For in the divine virtues all must experience in equal portions the aspects of positive and negative, wealth and poverty.

Karma (Paranormal)

Hindu and Buddhist ethical doctrine of "as one sows, so shall one reap". See also reincarnation.

Karma (Religion)

To varying degrees, depending on specific sects, it is the sum of one’s actions in life, being good or evil, which determines one’s destiny in reincarnation. Found in all Hindu, and many Buddhist, denominations.

Karma (Role Playing Games)

Part of DFK from Everway, by Jonathan Tweet. This is determining the result of an action or conflict by non-random comparison of character ability and the opposing forces.

Karma (Sanskrit)

Action. The law of action and reaction. the fruits of the action. See pages on the law of Karma & on reincarnation.

Karma (Sikhism)

The reward or punishment of any action of man is given by Gods order according to merit, God may give it or withhold it.

Karma (Yoga)

One of the central ideas of Hindu philosophy, Karma is literally action of any kind, including ritual acts. But Karma also includes the concept of cause and effect, the spiritual equivalent of Newton's law that every action has an equal an opposite reaction. Karma itself is the action and bad or good karma refers to past actions.

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