BTW, as clarification. My understanding of the "real" meaning behind 
Karma would be more or less these rules:

1. Karma doesn't happen "now", its generally punishment for action in a 
*prior* life.
2. Its karma that determines if you are lucky/unlucky, born rich, or 
poor, gain in business, of fail, and everything else.
3. In the most extreme case, someone from the absolute top caste could 
go nuts, murder someone in the bottom caste, and not be charged (at 
least in the old days, though maybe less so now), based on the theory 
that the higher status of the offender made it divine justice, and the 
low caste of the victim made it karma, for something they did wrong, in 
the prior life.

The west has turned this into some idiot version of, 'like calls like', 
mysticism, and uses the term to describe the fantastically rare cases 
where someone does something bad and suffers a similar reward, almost 
immediately, rather than the much more common thing, which is to get by 
with it, or the nearly as common result of being hammered by some random 
event, that is magnitudes out of proportion to the supposed "crime". 
Though, the later is often taken as a "sign" that some sort of justice 
was served via karma as well.

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