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Prārabdha karma

The karma that has begun to bear fruit and has produced the present life; it runs its course even after liberation.

Also: Prarabdha

Vedānta and the Hindu traditions

Vedānta distinguishes three kinds of karma: the vast store of past actions not yet ripened; the karma being created now; and prārabdha, the portion that has begun to ripen and produced the present body. Knowledge destroys the first two, but the prārabdha runs on, like an arrow already shot, until the body falls.