"(some scholars have translated saṃskāra as ‘habit-formations’).

In other words, karma was understood as a designatory label for the process of pleasure/pain/neutral conditioning.

That which gives me pleasure I wish to experience again (rāga), while that which causes pain I wish to continually avoid (pratigha).

Hence my behavior (karma) arises from what I do positively or negatively to reiterate pain and pleasure."