Karmic Relief: Harnessing the Laws of Cause and Effect for a Joyful, Meaningful Life

"Karma" is in our vocabulary, but do we really know what it means?

The word is everywhere-not just in alternative spirituality, and among Hindus and Buddhists, but in news reports, ads, sitcoms, sports columns, and the everyday conversations of people who wouldn't know the Upanishads from Us magazine. Stephen Colbert invokes the term on television and Taylor Swift summons it in song.

This book chronicles the origin and evolution of karmic theory and describes how the concept came to the West....