The basic tenet of karma is essentially "if you do good things, good things will happen to you — if you do bad things, bad things will happen to you." Karma does not specifically concern itself with salvation as it implies a basic socio-ethical dynamic. According to karma, performing positive actions results in a good condition in one's experience, whereas a negative action results in a bad effect. The effects may be seen immediately or delayed until later in the present life or in the next.