The Soul, the Self is free from Karma.+

The Soul, the Self is free from Karma. The Karma is a  reality only for those who think the  Self as 'I'.  and waking as reality. 

If one becomes free from the ignorance of the true Self, there will be no varied individuals and no varied karmas; misery will thus disappear. He who kills man’s creation sees heaven of non-duality only; the others see only a  hell of duality.

Karma theory is based on the waking entity. Waking entity is false self within the false experience, whereas the self is birthless and deathless. Karma performed by the false self within the false experience is bound to be a falsehood.  

Thus, one has to realize the fact that, dream entity is also is the false self, within the false experience. The dream is considered as a falsehood when waking takes place. Similarly, waking also becomes falsehood when wisdom dawns. Wisdom dawns when the waking entity realizes it itself is not the self in the midst of the waking experience.  

Waking experience is a state of ignorance. In the state of ignorance, one remains to experience the illusion as a reality.  Till the illusion remains a reality, he will remain ignorant of the fact that the cycle of birth, life, and death are merely an illusion.  

It is not possible for one to accept the fact that the world is an  illusion, till  he becomes aware of the fact that, the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is dream entity,  but the Self the formless Soul or consciousness, which is  the substance and the  witness of the three states.  

Those who believe the waking entity as the Self, and refuse to accept the Soul  as true Self, find the law of Karma as universal law and very sacred because they have  blindly accepted their experience of  birth, life, death, and the world as reality without verifying  the validity of their  accepted truth.

Sage Sankara says clearly, the universe is not real. He says that Brahman and Atman are one. The ultimate and the Absolute Truth is the Self, which is one though appearing as many different individuals. The individual has no reality. Only the Self is Real; the rest, mental and physical are but passing appearances, then it indicates the form (waking or universe) is unreal the formless is real (Soul).  Therefore, only Atman is real because there is no second thing other than Atman.

Sage Sankara  also clearly mentions that:~

The path of religion, the theory of Karma,  the path of yoga and the path of wisdom were intended for different classes of people. The wisdom is for the advanced seekers of truth. It deals with the nature of the ultimate Truth and Reality. It is meant for superior aspirants who have an inner urge to know the truth and it is not for those who are immersed in earthly desires.

Thus we have to know the fact that the  Bhagavan Buddha, Sage Goudpada, and Sage  Sankara are not only reformers but also the greatest sage scientists. Since their original thesis has been lost in the labyrinths of philosophy and mutilated by pundits and orthodoxy, it becomes very difficult to understand and assimilate the wisdom expounded by the great masters. In addition, the conservativeness of the orthodox scholars will not allow any research other than playing with the words, which suits the mass mindset, because of their egocentric outlook.

 All the add-ons have to be deleted, in order to understand and assimilate the real fragrance of the wisdom expounded by the great masters of Advaita, but it is a hurricane task.  Thus, it is no use going through all the scriptures, when there is a direct path to Advaitic truth.  The same time and effort can be used to reach the nondual destination, in lesser time and effort. 

  

Nonduality does not need the support of any Scripture or Revelation like the Veda. Since,  it is based, not upon the varying theological fancies, which are as numerous as the sands of the sea, but upon reason, the common heritage of all mankind, irrespective of color or creed or clime.

The Seeker of truth has to know that something is inadequate in Buddhist or orthodox Advaitic teachings to reach the nondual destination because of the add-ons and adulteration. Thus,  it becomes difficult to reach the destination directed by the Buddha, Sage Sankara, and Sage Goudpada.  It is for the seeker to personally remove the obstacle.  The greatest hindrance is mixing religion, god, scriptures, and yogic theories. Moreover, attachment to scriptures, personal god and religious code of conduct keeps one permanently in the grip of duality.

When the Self is neither the body nor the ego, neither the waking entity, not the dream entity, then how the karma based on the false self within the false experience can yield fruits.  Therefore, karma is a religious fable. 

The karma theory is a reality only for those who believe their present physical identity (ego or the waking entity) as real, and world as reality. When Sage Sankara declares the world itself is an illusion, and Brahman is real than what value the karma theory has when the world is an illusion because man is part and parcel of the illusory world. Therefore, one has to view and judge the worldview from the standpoint of Brahman (Atman/true self) in order to overcome the duality, which he is experiencing it as reality. 

The individuality is a  reality within the illusory world. Therefore, all the theories created within the illusion on the base of a false entity, within the false experience, has to be the part and parcel of the illusion.  Thus,  it is necessary to realize the fact that Atman is the true self and all else is an illusion, to overcome the illusory concept of the cycle of birth, life, and death.  Thus to understand and assimilate Sage Sankara’s Advaitic truth,  the seeker has to do his own homework through deeper self-search, without mixing religion, scriptures, theories, the concept of God and yoga. 

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

My point is that, if one accepts the karma theory as 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 the birth, life, and death as a reality it is impossible to acquire the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar