<p>Kamma is destroyed only by the Dhamma Niyama of not-self (<em>anatta</em>). </p>

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  <p><em>Just this noble eightfold path — right view, right resolve, right
  speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right
  mindfulness, right concentration — is the path of practice leading to
  the cessation of kamma. AN 6.63</em></p>
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thanks for the reply i would like to think you are right but i want to be sure its the case  ... so devils advocate :  what you wrote talks about the complete cessation of karma in genral  and that the noble eightfold path is the only way to do so  .... but that doesn't mean that spesific karmas along the way cannot be destroyed by other laws (from the five niyamas)  .......  just for the ultimate cessation of karma you can only do it with the path - but that is a different issue
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Dhamma Dhatu
<p>They can influence Karma and affect Vipaka(result).
ex: The reason why mangoes taste the way they taste is due to Bija Niyama &amp; Uttu Niyama. Not because of Karma. So when you eat a mango, the pleasurable feeling at the tongue arises due to Karma. But Karma cannot make it taste like an apple, if you eat a mango. The nature of the pleasure is conditioned by other Niyamas.</p>

<p>Similarly, they could potentially make some Karma defunct(Ahosi) by not giving them the chance to come into fruition. 
ex: When the world system is about to be destroyed, if you do a Karma that can only give result in the sensual realm, it could become defunct due to the destruction of the sensual realm. </p>

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<p>Can karma be destroyed by other Niyamas?</p>

<p>Can the other four niyamas from the "Five Niyamas" remove a person's karma? Or just affect it?</p>

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What are the Five Niyamas? Thanks
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From what i understand they are 5 "laws" of the world  -  the law of karma is one of them 

I understand that not all agree about that there are 5 laws and some say there is only karma  ----  i personally dont like it and would love to think that all is kamma and that's it ...

a link i didnt read even about this thing :  http://thezenuniverse.org/the-five-nyamas/
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Not exactly a duplicate. But linking this question here as some of the answers there shed some light on to this question. https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/25790/is-there-a-way-to-hasten-the-results-of-bad-deeds/25793#25793
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Can karma be destroyed by other Niyamas?
# Can karma be destroyed by other Niyamas?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-10-11)

Can karma be destroyed by other Niyamas?

Can the other four niyamas from the "Five Niyamas" remove a person's karma? Or just affect it?

**Tags:** karma

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: What are the Five Niyamas? Thanks  
> **username_0**: From what i understand they are 5 "laws" of the world  -  the law of karma is one of them   I understand that not all agree about that there are 5 laws and some say there is only karma  ----  i personally dont like it and would love to think that all is kamma and that's it ...  a link i didnt read even about this thing :  http://thezenuniverse.org/the-five-nyamas/  
> **username_2**: Not exactly a duplicate. But linking this question here as some of the answers there shed some light on to this question. https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/25790/is-there-a-way-to-hasten-the-results-of-bad-deeds/25793#25793  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-10-11. Score: 0

Kamma is destroyed only by the Dhamma Niyama of not-self (*anatta*).

> *Just this noble eightfold path — right view, right resolve, right
> speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right
> mindfulness, right concentration — is the path of practice leading to
> the cessation of kamma. AN 6.63*

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: thanks for the reply i would like to think you are right but i want to be sure its the case  ... so devils advocate :  what you wrote talks about the complete cessation of karma in genral  and that the noble eightfold path is the only way to do so  .... but that doesn't mean that spesific karmas along the way cannot be destroyed by other laws (from the five niyamas)  .......  just for the ultimate cessation of karma you can only do it with the path - but that is a different issue  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2017-10-11. Score: 0

They can influence Karma and affect Vipaka(result).
ex: The reason why mangoes taste the way they taste is due to Bija Niyama & Uttu Niyama. Not because of Karma. So when you eat a mango, the pleasurable feeling at the tongue arises due to Karma. But Karma cannot make it taste like an apple, if you eat a mango. The nature of the pleasure is conditioned by other Niyamas.

Similarly, they could potentially make some Karma defunct(Ahosi) by not giving them the chance to come into fruition.
ex: When the world system is about to be destroyed, if you do a Karma that can only give result in the sensual realm, it could become defunct due to the destruction of the sensual realm.


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