How karma affects your life and what to do about it

On a deeper, long-term level, performing your actions properly (i.e. without desire or attachment) will free you from their residual consequences (your karma). All of your actions have five elements that bring them about; your individual ego-based personality that performs the action, the thought that generates the action, the various instruments of thought and knowledge such as your brain and senses, the actual function performed by your body’s arms, legs, mouth, etc., and one’s self-created destiny (from your karma) that acts like a presiding director over the choices you make. By performing your actions without desire or attachment you will eventually be released from the influence of that destiny and you will be free to choose the actions that are truly in your own best interest. As it turns out, those actions that are in your best interest are those which also benefits others, so performing all your actions properly will cause your evolution to spiral upward toward eventual union with God and absolute freedom.