2. Prarabdha Karma — Destiny Unfolding

Prārabdha Karma (प्रारब्ध कर्म) is the portion of Sanchita that has ‘ripened’ and is already in motion.
It is the arrow already released — impossible to call back.
Your present birth — your family, your health, even the span of your life — are all shaped by this unfolding script.

No action, however small, goes unnoticed in the cosmic ledger. Even the subtlest thought radiates into the universe and returns in due time. The Garuḍa Purāṇa warns that ignoring this truth leads to repeated suffering.

📜 Śloka – Garuḍa Purāṇa, Dharma Kāṇḍa, 2.36

न कर्मणां परिणामो नष्टो भवति कर्हिचित् ।
कालेन महता ह्येष सर्व एवोपभुज्यते ॥
na karmaṇāṃ pariṇāmo naṣṭo bhavati karhicit |
kālena mahatā hyeṣa sarva evopabhujyate ||

Meaning:
The fruit of karma is never destroyed; even after great spans of time, every action must be experienced in full.

This is the Purāṇa’s gentle but firm reminder: the universe has infinite patience, and your deeds will find you — in this life or another.

Even the greatest sages, having burned their other karmas in the fire of knowledge, still carry a body until their Prārabdha is spent — just as a potter’s wheel continues to spin even after the potter has ceased turning it.

3. Agami Karma — The Future You Create

Agāmi Karma (आगामी कर्म) is the fresh karma you are creating in this very moment — through your thoughts, words, and deeds.
It is the arrow you shape today, which will one day join the quiver of Sanchita and script your tomorrows.

Yet, the Garuḍa Purāṇa is not merely a book of warnings — it offers hope. It teaches that through righteous living, selfless service, and devotion to the Divine, one can transcend the binding chains of karma.

📜 Śloka – Garuḍa Purāṇa, Mokṣa Kāṇḍa, 7.32

धर्मेण पापं निहन्यते ज्ञानात् सर्वं विनश्यति ।
भक्त्या तु परमं स्थानं याति जीवो न संशयः ॥
dharmeṇa pāpaṃ nihanyate jñānāt sarvaṃ vinaśyati |
bhaktyā tu paramaṃ sthānaṃ yāti jīvo na saṃśayaḥ ||

Meaning:
Sin is destroyed by righteousness, all is dissolved through knowledge, and through devotion the soul attains the Supreme state — without doubt.

Thus, karma is not a prison sentence — it is a teacher, showing you the way to freedom.

This is where your freedom lies.
You cannot change yesterday’s harvest, but you can plant better seeds today — seeds of Dharma, compassion, and wisdom — that will bear the fruits you wish to taste.

THE SECRET OF KARMA YOGA 

*”Our Rishis did not merely reveal the law of Karma — they gifted us a way to transcend it: Karma Yoga.
By acting with sincerity but without clinging to results, dedicating every act to the Divine, you cease to create binding Agāmi Karma.

When the seeker realizes that every joy and sorrow is the blossoming of seeds they themselves have sown, the heart turns inward. This is when surrender to the Divine becomes natural, and liberation inevitable.

The Bhagavad Gītā (2.47) gives this eternal key:
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन ।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥
Karmaṇyevādhikāraste mā phaleṣu kadācana,
mā karmaphalaheturbhūrmā te saṅgo’stvakarmaṇi —
You have the right to action alone, never to its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be your motive, nor let your attachment be to inaction.

Bhagavad Gītā 4.17

गहनाः कर्मणो गतिः ॥
gahanāḥ karmaṇo gatiḥ

Meaning:
The path of karma is profound and mysterious.

Here the Purāṇa and the Gītā meet — revealing that the deepest understanding of karma is not mere intellectual grasp, but an inner awakening.

When Agāmi ceases, Sanchita is burnt in the fire of knowledge (jñānāgni).
Only Prārabdha remains — spinning briefly, like the last turns of a slowing wheel — until stillness, and liberation, arrive.