Karma as a function of time (Kaala) and greater time (Maha-Kaala)
Karma or karman тАФ means "to do," "to make." translating that by applying time to it, this becomes "doing," "making," action. Karma can best be translated into English by the word consequence. It corresponds to the "action" or "deed" which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect. It applies to all levels of action, including thought, word, feeling and deed, and the effects of it.
Karma refers to any act or deed purely based on the principle of cause and effect and is a consequence or karmaphala ("fruit of action") or uttaraphala ("after effect"), which sooner or later returns upon the doer. The doer can "act" only if there is Sakti (creative feminine energy). This essentially means that all Karma can happen only because of Sakti. Hence Sakti here is the cause. As per the definition of Karma, the cause must have an effect - this effect is an eventual consequence of the cause - which is regarded as the inert presentation of the cause, which is referred to as Purusha (creative masculine inertia). Hence Purusha here is the effect. When a transition of a cause results in an effect, we call it Time or Kaala. The entire process of doer involving in a causation to cause an inertia is called Karma. Now moving further, the phenomenon of this cause and effect happens only because of the non-dual aspect of self - the absolute consciousness - this is often referred to as Maha-Kaala (the cause of all causation).
So if we break is down:
ЁЯТл Action (Karma) = Action that always has a cause and the cause always having an effect
ЁЯМи Cause (Karana) = Sakti (Creative energy of the Universe)
ЁЯМк Effect (Phala) = Purusha (Creative inertia resulting from the cause)
ЁЯМЮ Time (Kaala) = The phenomenon of transforming a cause into an effect
