What do you understand by Karma?

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I'm a strong believer of Karma. What ever good or bad action that we do in our life is definitely going to come back to us in a way. If we are doing lots of good deeds, it will reach to us in the form of good and if we are doing bad things to someone, it is going to be tracked and reflect on us someday when we don't really expect it to happen. Science also provides a good explanation to this theory and they name it as Cause and Effect theory. Karma theory is very common in religions that originated from Hinduism and people who follow Hinduism mostly believes in Karma theory. 

Fate

People usually relate Karma with fate. That is a good comparison. Fate is something that comes as the outcome of Karma we do. If we do some bad deeds, it can revert back on us and when it happens people call it fate. They will not be able to justify why bad things are happening. Ultimately they say that it is because of fate. There are both acceptance theories as well as contradictions to this concept. I strongly believe that Karma is recorded somewhere and that recording can also be manipulated as fate and based on the Karma recordings a person has, his fate is determined.  It is also thought provoking if we dive deep to understand if someone can completely go away from Karma. If something like that happens, they will not be bound to this world at all. But will we still use the term fate for them saying that their fate was to end up like that?

Karma beyond birth and death

According to Hinduism Karma is not fixed for a single birth. The journey of Human being are beyond birth and death. We might have taken several births before and we might even take several births after this life but the actions we do (good or bad) in all the birth gets accumulated and is shown as effect. Someone would have been a great person in the current birth and would have always thought good for others. But the things that happen for him will be completely opposite and he will end up in a situation where he will have to suffer a lot. Scholars say that the reason for this is because of the deeds he would have done during his previous births. When we die our Karma still remains the same and we will be pushed to our next life along with Karma. It is believed that the birth death cycle ends only if we lose all our Karma. 

Karma and Science

Today even modern science accepts the Karma theory. The reason is because it is closely related to cause and effect theory. Science provides lots of technical explanation to cause and effect theory which you and browse and understand. Similarly science also believe in the law that effect action has an equal and opposite reaction. In a way both these findings from Science can be closely related with Karma theory because it is also saying the same thing but in a different manner. Obviously science will not be able to talk about the beyond birth and death concepts and all. To some extent it can be easily understood with the help of science and its findings. 

Is it good or bad?

I don't know if this is a natural system that originated automatically or someone created this system. I'm not going to debate on that as well. But as far as I know I see a lot of significance in this Karma theory. People who strongly believe in Karma theory don't take life for granted easily. When they are forced to do any bad things, they take a moment to think about the effect of doing bad things. If they have an option to avoid doing it, they go for it because they don't really wish to accumulate their bad karma. People are a bit afraid to do bad things to others. In some of the countries this is very common. They just to take the justice side all the time instead of spreading negativity. 

This creates both self motivation as well as positive attitude in people. They think multiple times before doing something. Some of the Saints in India, even refrain from accumulating good deeds as well. The monks who know that the actual path towards salvation is to get rid of both Good Karma as well as Bad Karma, work towards a state where no Karma is generated for them at all. That state is also known as the Samadhi state and it is not easily accessible for everyone. But once a person reaches that state, the worldly things will not affect the person. 

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