Karma means action. Action leads to believing the illusory experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality, not to perception of reality.+

Karma means action. Action leads to believing the illusory experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality, not to perception of Reality.

The realization of Truth is brought about by discrimination and not in the least by individual conduct and actions.

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Sage Sankara: ~ “Action (karma) cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with or opposed to ignorance. Knowledge does verily destroy ignorance as light destroys deep darkness. -Atma Bodha

The Karma theory is a religious fable. The Karma theory is based on the birth entity whereas the Self is birthless and deathless because it is the ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

Karma is the product of ignorance. because karma is possible only in the domain of form, time, and space. Form, time, and space are present only when ignorance is present.

From the standpoint of the Soul, form, time, and space are an illusion. Thus, whatever karma is performed within the domain of the form, time and space is an illusion.

If you are seeking truth then do not get stuck up in the karma theory which is meant for the ignorant populace.

From the standpoint of the birthless Soul, the Self Self, the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is merely an illusion. Thus, the karma done on the illusory Self within the illusory world is bound to be an illusion.

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Karma (Action) will not dispel ignorance itself. Karma itself is based on ignorance Only Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana will destroy ignorance.

The person who bases on the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is trying to find the meaning of life. There is no meaning or purpose in life because life is merely happening within the universe, which is a dualistic illusion or Maya.

Thus, the Karma Theory based on the physical entity is based on birth, life, and death, which is part and parcel of the dualistic illusion:~

Karma implies duality. From the ultimate standpoint, duality is an illusion.

People's observation is based on the dualistic perspective, whereas a Gnanis judgment is based on the nondualistic (Soul or consciousness) perspective. What is the use of discussing karma, which takes place within the unreal world? Instead, one has to find how this world is unreal (illusion).

In Atmic discussion, the form, time, and space (universe) are merely an illusion. Karma is possible within the scope of the experience of form, time, and space (universe).

That is why Sage Goudpada said:~ The merciful Veda teaches karma and Upasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while Jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.

When the Self is not the form, but the Self is formless then whose karma. The one which is born lives and dies is not the Self then the question of karma does not arise. The waking entity (you) is the false self within the false experience (waking).

Thus whatever action and inaction, past, present, and future belong to the waking experience, which is falsehood.

What happens to the dream entity which did good karma in the dream world it died and reincarnated in the next life, and suffers, but when waking takes place, the dream becomes unreal.

The waking becomes unreal when the waking entity (you) realizes the fact that it itself (you), is not the Self but the Self is the Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession.

Thus, neither karma of the waking entity nor the karma of the dream entity has meaning because the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is the dream entity but the Self is the Soul.

You are not the Self because you are the birth entity; you are bound by form, time, and space whereas the Self is unborn and eternal then how does karma theory have any meaning when the karma theory is based on the false Self (you) and false experience (world).

The karma theory is a religious fable meant for the people who are fully immersed in the practical life and practical world believing the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality. If Self is unborn eternal then what values the karma theory will have because it is based on birth, life, death, and rebirth.

The karma theory is merely a religious and yogic fable.

Sage Ramana Maharishi J. Krishnamurti, and Nisargadatta Maharaj, all died of cancer-type illness. It does not make any difference if they died of cancer or not cancer or any illness. Even Lord Krishna died a painful death. Death is a certain cause of death that is irrelevant to a Gnani.

When the Self is birthless then it is deathless A Gnani is unconcerned about death because he is fully aware that the illusion is only a passing show.

Thus the karma theory is nothing to do with the birthless Self. Thus people’s painful death cannot be taken as evidence because the Self is ever deathless because it is birthless because it is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The karmic account is never ending because one has to be born again and again to reap his good or bad karma carried forward from one life to the next. The karma theory is merely a religious and yogic fable.

Sage Sankara says in Aparoksh Anubhuti:- “88. When the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be Atman, and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is Atman?

89. O enlightened one, pass your time always contemplating on Atman while you are experiencing all the results of Prarabdha; for it ill becomes you to feel distressed.

90. The theory one hears of from the scripture, that Prarabdha does not lose its hold upon one even after the origination of the knowledge of Atman, is now being refuted.

91. After the origination of the knowledge of Reality, Prarabdha verily ceases to exist, inasmuch as the body and the like become non-existent; just as a dream does not exist on waking.

92. That Karma which is done in a previous life is known as Prarabdha (which produces the present life). But such Karma cannot take the place of Prarabdha (for a man of knowledge), as he has no other birth (being free from ego).

93. Just as the body in a dream is superimposed (and therefore illusory), so is also this body. How could there be any birth of the superimposed (body), and in the absence of birth (of the body) where is the room for that (i.e., Prarabdha) at all?

94. The Vedanta texts declare ignorance to be verily the material (cause) of the phenomenal world just as the earth is of a jar. That (ignorance) being destroyed, where can the universe subsist?

95. Just as a person out of confusion perceives only the snake leaving aside the rope, so does an ignorant person see only the phenomenal world without knowing the reality?

96. The real nature of the rope being known, the appearance of the snake no longer persists; so the substratum being known, the phenomenal world disappears completely.

97. The body also being within the phenomenal world (and therefore unreal), how could Prarabdha exist? It is, therefore, for the understanding of the ignorant alone that the Shruti speaks of Prarabdha.

98. “And all the actions of a man perish when he realizes that (Atman) which is both the higher and the lower”. Here the clear use of the plural by the Shruti is to negate Prarabdha as well.

99. If the ignorant still arbitrarily maintain this, they will not only involve themselves in two absurdities but will also run the risk of forgoing the Vedantic conclusion. So one should accept those Shrutis alone from which proceeds true knowledge.

The above proves that karma is reality only on the base of the false self, where one thinks body and the universe as reality. When one becomes aware of the fact that, the true Self is the formless Soul, then karma becomes part and parcel of illusion.

If one accepts the karma theory as a reality, he will never be able to come out of ignorance. And ignorance makes him believe the cycle of birth, life, and death as a reality.

Thus, the freedom which one is seeking will remain a distant dream. For the one who accepts birth life and death as a reality, Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana, or Atma Gnana is impossible. : ~Santthosh Kumaar