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HEALTH AND WELL BEING A CURATED NEWSLETTER FOR A SOULFUL PEACE OF MIND

The FOUR Main Types Of Karma

While some Kriyamana Karmas bear fruit in the current life, others are stored
for enjoying in future births.

Thus the Kriyamana Karma is classified into two sub-categories: Arabdha
Karma - literally, ‘begun, undertaken;’ the Karma that is ‘sprouting’- and
Anarabdha Karma - ‘not commenced; dormant’ or ‘The Seed Karma’.

An example : two persons commit a theft and one of them get caught -
Arabdha Karma - and the other one got away - Anarabdha Karma.

The thief who got caught, immediately starts to feel the effect of the cause or
the reaction to his action; he gets caught and goes to jail.