Karma means action. Action implies duality. duality is mere illusion from ultimate standpoint. thus conduct based moksha is mere imagined theory based in the false self(ego or waking entity) within the false experience(waking) . Therefore, all action(Karma) based on the false self(ego or waking entity) within the false experience(waking) will not the means to acquire non dual wisdom or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
The theory of fate (Prarabdha) is for the ignorant one because those who accept the waking entity as self and waking world as reality will remain in believing in the theory of birth, death and rebirth.
The theory of fate (Prarabdha) is for the ignorant one because those who accept the waking entity as self and waking world as reality will remain in believing in the theory of birth, death and rebirth.
The waking entity and the waking world are
reality within the waking experience. The waking experience itself is illusion
from ultimate standpoint.
The body being in
this universe , does not also exist and due to this, Prarabdha also does not
exist, Though the Vedas speak of Prarabdha, For the understanding of the ignorant.
The Mundaka Upanishad tells that:-
Ksheeyanthe thasya karmani thasmin drushte cha paravare, Bahuthwam
than nishedartha sruthya geetham cha yath sphutam. 98
The body being in
this world does not also exist and due to this, Prarabdha also does not exist,
though the Vedas speak of Prarabdha, for the understanding of the ignorant.
All
actions of man including Prarabdha, Perishes when one is able to see, Brahman
which is in the higher and also lower, Thus tell the Vedas with clarity, *Cause
and effect If fate does not get destroyed, ignorance gets never destroyed and
spiritual realization never comes.
Uchyathe agnai balath
chaithaththadaanatha thad vayagama, Vedantha matha hanam cha yadho jnanam ithi
sruthi. 99
If
the ignorant adamantly refuse to know this, Not only will they get involved in
two absurdities*, But also forsake the conclusions of Vedantha, Which proceed
from Veda, the true knowledge. *negation of Brahman and its realization.
Sri, Sankara says in Aparokshanubhuti:-
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?
Sri, Sankara says in Aparokshanubhuti:-
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 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 the karma is reality only on the base of
false self, where one thinks body and the universe as 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 the ignorance. And ignorance makes him believe the cycle of birth,
life and death or pain and pleasure as reality.
Thus the freedom which one is seeking will remain distant dream. For the
one who accepts the birth life and death as reality, Self-knowledge is
impossible.
Thus it is necessary for the seeker of truth to know the fact
that, the body which is born, lives and dies is not the self. Since he is
taking the body to be the self, he is experiencing the duality as reality.
As Sri,
Sankara says: 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.
If body is not the Atman/self, then the karma theory has no meaning on the standpoint of the truth.
Thus no second thing exists other than Atman, therefore why to view the
worldview on the standpoint of the body as self [I] when the body [I] is the
false self, and the soul/Atman is the true self.