Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म About this sound kárma (help·info), kárman- \\\"act, action, performance\\\"[1]; Pali: kamma) in Indian religions is the concept of \\\"action\\\" or \\\"deed\\\", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called saṃsāra) originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and Buddhist philosophies.[2] \\\'Karma\\\' is an Eastern religious concept in contradistinction to \\\'faith\\\' espoused by Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), which view all human dramas as the will of God as opposed to present - and past - life actions. In theistic schools of Hinduism, humans have free will to choose good or evil and su