karmic retribution
Deserved spiritual consequence
Karmic retribution is the idea that bad actions eventually come back to harm the person who committed them—a cosmic settling of accounts.
The phrase draws from Hindu and Buddhist concepts of karma but is used loosely in everyday speech to describe deserved misfortune: After years of cheating people, he lost everything. Karmic retribution.
It implies a moral order to the universe, where wrongdoing inevitably rebounds on the wrongdoer.
- karmaSpiritual cause and effect
- bad karmaAccumulated spiritual consequences
- past lifeEarlier embodied existence
- fatePredetermined course of events
- justiceFair treatment under law
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- Chinese Afterlifenetherworld, hell realm, Horse-Face, ghost city, spirit world
- Japanese supernaturalyokai, oni, kitsune, tengu, kappa
- religious penaltiesexcommunication, anathema, shunning, disfellowship, banishment
karmic retributiondivine forgiveness
Deity pardoning wrongdoing
grace · absolution · mercy · redemption · amnesty
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