Dear Trev,
I respect your views and wisdom. There is no need to accept what I say. As the
seeker progresses in his self-search the truth will start revealing. There is no such God sits and corrects each
and every individual for his action (karma) and rewards or award good or bad life in the next life. When karma theory is limited only to Hinduism then
how can it be a universal theory?
As per my conviction:-
The
karma theory is a universal theory for those who believe the illusory duality as reality.
The karma is a reality only for those
who believe the false self (waking entity or ego or you) as real self and false
experience (waking or universe) as reality. The karma theory is reality for
those who believe the experience of form, time and space as reality. Karma theory is reality for those who believe in
individualized God. Karma theory is reality for those who believe in the experience
of birth, life, death and rebirth and the world as reality.
Where
is the dream mountain when waking takes place? The dream people and dream world
dis-appeared when the waking reappears, then what substance this waking and
dream and deep sleep are they made? What
is it that was aware of this coming and going of the three states? Thus without knowing what witnesses the
coming and going of the three states how can one say the karma theory is universal
theory when the karma is limited to waking experience alone the dream karma
becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly the waking karma becomes
unreal when wisdom dawns. The wisdom dawns when the waking entity (doer of
karma) realizes it itself is not the self but the self is the formless soul. If
the self is not the waking entity but the self is formless soul then how anyone
can accept the theory of karma, which is based on false self within the false experience.
Thus whatever theories are based on the false self (waking entity or ego) and
false experience (waking or world) is bound to be falsehood.
Karma
is a reality only for those who are stuck with the reality of the practical
life within the practical world because they have accepted the world as reality.
What
is the doer, what is the enjoyer, what is a cessation of thought and rising of
thought, what is immediate perception and its result, to the soul, the
innermost self, the ever impersonal.
What
is is the world, what is meant by the aspirant
for liberation; what is the
contemplative man and what is a man of knowledge ; what is the soul in bondage
and what is liberated soul to the innermost self , which is ever formless and non-dual.
What
are Prarabdha Karmas, what is even liberation
in life, and what is that and where is liberation at death for the soul, the innermost self , which is
ever attributeless.
Nearest
state to understand the soul by itself is to eliminate the whole waking
experience, as in deep sleep. Once this is grasped one has to understand that
the three states are soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, that
soul or consciousness is the innermost self.
Deeper-self-search reveals the fact that, the karma theory is meant for
those who are immersed in worldly life thinking the individual life within the
particle world as reality. In path of truth the karma theory becomes a great
obstacle in realizing the truth.
When Sri, 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 in
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/duality/mind) is unreal the formless is real (soul/spirit/self/FW).
Therefore, only Atman is real because there is no second thing other than Atman.
He also clearly mentions that:-
The path of religion, theory of
karma, 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 inner urge to know the truth and it is not for those who are immersed
in earthly desires.
Sage Sri Gaudapada says: - The merciful Veda
teaches karma and Upasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while
Jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.
It means the people who follow religion and worship
of guru and conceptual god and believe
in karma theory are lower and middling intellect. But in this modern world people are sharp
enough to understand and assimilate ultimate truth or Brahman or god. Thus it
is high time to discard the lower knowledge and move ahead to realize the
ultimate truth, which is Brahman or God.
They alone in
this world are endowed with the highest wisdom who are firm in their conviction
of the sameness and birthlessness of Ataman. The ordinary man does not
understand their way. (Chapter IV — Alatasanti
Prakarana 95-P-188 in Upanishads by Nikilanada)
This karma theory based on the human conduct must have been adopted from
Buddhism and also other theories based on human conducts.
When it says: Perform the obligatory karmas without any attachment to
the fruits, and at the same time worship gods and goddesses, again without any
desire to go to heaven - then you can get the benefit of both, liberation and
bliss. For those who are not yet ready to renounce, this path is recommended,
it mean that the religion and its idea of god and goddesses and code of
conducts, and its rituals are meant for the mass who are incapable of thinking
of the beyond.
In addition, it also speaks of heaven the abode of gods, where one goes
after death, and it speaks of rebirth, this contradiction, seeker has to
conclude that religion, rituals god and its code of conducts are meant for the
mass that is not receptive to self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
When the self is not the body (‘ego or waking entity’) whatever one
sees, knows, believes, experiences and feels on the base of the body (‘ego or
waking entity’ as self is bound to be illusion. Thus, the karma performed
in illusion is bound to be illusion. The birth, life and death is happening
within the illusion, therefore it is bound to be illusion. Thus, rebirth and
reincarnation theories based on the false self within the false experience are
bound to be illusion on the base of the true self. Only the witness of the
illusion is real (Brahman). Therefore, everything has to be viewed and
judged, on the base of the Formless Witness (soul or consciousness) in order to
overcome the illusion/duality.
The seeker of truth has to know somewhere he is going wrong, and it is for
the seeker to go on his own and 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.
