karmic debt
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]karmic + debt. First use appears c. 1888.
Noun
[edit]karmic debt (countable and uncountable, plural karmic debts)
- (New Age, mysticism, metaphysics, spirituality) The accumulation of negative energy resulting from misdeeds in one's past.
- 1888, W.Q. Judge (publisher), The Path - Volume 2, page 93:
- and be in turn at some future moment compelled to give up its stolen habitation by the expiration of the Karmic debt of the real and exiled man, who could then return.
- 1896, Jerome A. Anderson, Karma - A Study of the Law of Cause and Effect in Relation to Rebirth Or Reincarnation, Post-mortem States of Consciousness, Cycles, Vicarious Atonement, Fate, Predestination, Free Will, Forgiveness, Animals, Suicides, Etc, page 82:
- that the karmic debt, if it be in his favor, will be settled just as accurately and completely as it would have been if the balance had been against him.
- 1905, New Century Path - Volume 8, Part 2, page 16:
- And so the question arises, how can we become free from this Karmic debt?
- 1911, O.E. Library League, The O.E. Library Critic - Volumes 1-2:
- by just saying that you are sorry, and has wisely determined to settle his karmic debt at once, instead of having to pay it with compound interest at some future time
- 1926, Ida Mingle, Science of Love with Key to Immortality, page 955:
- In this way the karmic debt is paid and the ego is opened to receive the influx of the Divine powers that make for a higher state of being.
- 1938, Continental News, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.) (contributor), True Mystic Science - Volumes 1-2, page 30:
- Without malice, I wondered what karmic debt I had incurred to bring forth such a sharp lesson as the losing of everything my heart and pride had cherished: family ties, home, position, and health.
- 1948, Florence Scovel Shinn, The Secret Door To Success, page 12:
- Then you pay some Karmic debt; the price for having violated spiritual law.
- 1953, Byzant John Manoogian, Adventures with the Inner Voice, page 61:
- They are never happy now, because their Karma is, at this time, putting them through suffering for past debts; but sometimes, when their Karmic debt is fully paid, then as a result of cause and effect, they will enjoy perfect bliss-Karma will do all things for them.
- 1966, Charan Singh (Satguru), The Master Answers - To Audiences in America, page 479:
- There seems to be an aversion to eating in people's houses, or if I talk to somebody, is there a personal karmic debt by the soul?"
- 1971, Joseph J. Weed, Wisdom of the Mystic Masters, page 15:
- ... there is still a karmic result and a karmic debt to be paid (or received) as long as the individual retains a self-conscious focus.
- 1982, Keiji Nishitani, Religion and Nothingness, page 259:
- ... a field where the infinite drive called "covetousness" is cast off and karmic debt has been paid off.
- 1999, Susan Whitfield, Life Along the Silk Road, page 171:
- He finds her and together they pray for seven days and seven nights, after which she is again transformed into a woman and thereafter allowed into heaven, her karmic debt now repaid in full.
- 2004, Kay Lagerquist, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Numerology, page 153:
- Of course, just being aware that you have a karmic debt will help you see a path for changing your life and changing your ways.
- 2009, Marj Bowers, Soulmates...., page 23:
- If we miss the full meaning of the Golden Rule, we start accumulating karmic debts that can compiles over lifetimes, spanning a few lifetimes or decades of lifetimes.
- 2011, Reverend Paul Lachlan Peck, Milestones of the Way: How East Meets West to Enrich Your Life, page 26:
- The answer lies in the fact that those who are spiritually advanced are are perhaps now ready to tackle a karmic debt that has been lying dormant for any number of lifetimes.
- 2018, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Path to Ultimate Happiness - Lamrim Teachings from Kopan 2009:
- In the past you received something from them, so you owe them karmic debts.
- 2022, Subhash Jain, The Path to Inner Peace - Mastering Karma:
- However the knowledge of karmic debt is not as important as the knowledge of the type of actions that reduce karmic debt.