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Not imagined but based on real facts. The main purpose of karma theory is to explain the problem of visible inequality in the world.
The general meaning of karma is known, but when we understand its connotative meaning, it is the combination of karmic atoms that affect the soul's power due to the actions performed by the living being. This combination is called karma, and this karma is the seed of the different, diverse, and unequal states of the living beings. Through this seed, the living being acquires various types of afflictions, diseases, and limitations.
This is what the Turkish proverb says: "Karma is the master, whatever you do, you will get the same result."
As a living being acts, so it receives the fruits. There is no injustice in this. The common people believe that "karma's path does not stop." Indian thinkers have given great importance to the theory of karma. All, whether they are soul-believing Jains, Sankhya and other non-soul-believing schools, and even God-believing thinkers, have accepted the existence of karma and the fact that it brings happiness, sorrow, etc. to the living being. Due to the consequences of karma, the living being acquires various types of inequalities. As one has acted with karma, so one's destiny and outcome become. Past karma arises and according to it, new karma is bound. This cycle has been going on since time immemorial.
To clarify the meaning of karma, various philosophers have used words like Maya, Avidya, Prakriti, Apurva, Vasana, Dharma-Adharma, Adrishta, Sanskar, etc.
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