The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1243 page)

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) or tendencies (
v
san
s
) in the mind which in time will come to fruition in further action. The
subtle body
(
li
ga
or
k
ma
ar
ra), in which the individual soul (jiva) transmigrates, carries the seeds of karma; and the gross body (
sth
la
ar
ra
) is the field (
k
etra
) in which the fruit (
phala
) of action is experienced, and which also creates more karma.
Ved
nta and Yoga speak of three kinds of karma:
(i) 
pr
rabdha
, karma to be experienced during the present lifetime,
(ii) 
sañcita
, latent karma, or the store of karma which has yet to reach fruition, and
(iii) 
gamin
or
sañc
yama
, the karma sown in the present life which will be reaped in a future life. Liberation (
mok
a
) is freedom from karma. When mok
a is attained, the great store of
sañcita karma
is burnt up, but the
pr
rabdha
remains to complete its course. The liberated person (jivanmukta) creates no more new karma and at death, having no more karma, is no longer reborn

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