Acharya Prashant addresses the popular notion that karma is something that comes around to you, like a boomerang. He explains that the moment you say this, you are postponing or relegating the fruit of your actions to the future. This introduces uncertainty, as one doesn't know if or when the result will come. This popular understanding of karma loses its power and kick. The real meaning and implication of karma, according to Vedanta and all wisdom, is quite different. Vedanta and all wisdom focus not so much on the action, which is karma, but on the actor. The actor is the primary entity. If the actor is conscious, awake, and understands, then one need not bother too much about the action; the action would naturally be alright. Conversely, if the actor is in a hazy, badly influenced, and heavily conditioned state, one need not wait for the results of the action. The result of the action comes even before the action, because the actor comes before the action. A bad state of the actor is in itself a lot of suffering. Therefore, you don't have to wait for the results. For instance, to commit a pathetic deed, you must first be pathetic inwardly. If you are bad and rotten inside, that is the biggest punishment you can receive; the punishment has already been received, and the future becomes immaterial. We fail to see this because we have an unfortunate power to become heavily acclimatized and used to suffering. When you are used to suffering, you do not see that you are suffering. The suffering one says, 'I did such and such things, now I want to test whether I would receive suffering as a result of my acts.' You don't need to receive suffering in the future; what you did arose out of your pre-existing suffering. This perspective makes various catchphrases like 'karmic account' and 'karmic balance' quite meaningless, as they are born from a shallow understanding of karma. The purpose of wisdom is to deal with the 'I'—the actor, thinker, doer, and understander. This 'I' is our primary identity, standing at the center of our personal universe. It is for your own betterment that you turn to wisdom or any other field. Therefore, it is commonsensical that we need to come to the primary entity that concerns us, which is the 'I', the actor.