How does karma work?

What is known for sure is that intent creates karma. Good intent creates good karma, bad intent creates bad karma. When you relinquish your intent, as in when you dedicate all your actions to God, then you generate no more karma.

As explained here, there are different kind of karma. So, if you tomorrow you become perfect and stop generating karma, you will still have to experience the praradbha karma, that you have generated before. Even the good one, because if you have helped someone in a past life, they want to repay you, so you'll need to reincarnate so that they can help you.

  1. I am not sure that good deeds generate a happy life, since you need to be in trouble so that others can help you.

  2. A horse that works gets rid of karma, a horse that stays all day long eating grass and stuff does not get rid of karma.

  3. Intent gives you karma. If you have no intent why would you suicide? And if you find a reason why would it give you karma?

  4. That must be a transposition of the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. The intent here is to separate people from God and cannot be forgiven.

  5. Well again, if you have helped others in past lives, how can they repay you if nothing bad ever happens to you? Gurus can also take on them the bad karma of those that they want to protect. Bad people enjoy good things because they have accepted some austerities. Those are temporary enjoyments and they go away after some time.

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