Karma

कर्म -The Bhagavad Gītā does not teach that good action brings good results. It teaches something harder than that.

Karma comes from the Sanskrit root kṛ, which means to do, to make, to act. The word names action itself. Not fate, not cosmic punishment, not a ledger the universe maintains on your behalf. Action, and more specifically, what action does to the one who performs it at the level of consciousness.

This needs to be said plainly because the English use of the…