Just as the body and the world in a dream is superimposed and therefore illusory, so is also this body and the world in the waking is superimposed. The birth, life, death and world are part of the waking experience and waking is superimposed, and in the absence of waking, which contains the body and the world there is no room for karma at all.
The ignorance to be verily the material or cause of the waking or dream just as water is of a cloud. If the ignorance is destroyed, how can the three states subsist?
Just as a person out of confusion perceives only the snake leaving aside the rope, so does an ignorant person experiences the world/dream within the waking without knowing their reality? The real nature of the rope being known, the appearance of the snake no longer persists; so the substratum being known, the waking no longer remains as real.
Believing
in The karma theory is a greatest obstacle in pursuit of truth, because it is
based on the physical self. The word "karma" means "action.
Karma through willful action, through thoughts, words and deeds are part and
parcel of the illusion. Sri, Sankara
says: The world is mere illusion and Brahman alone is real, that means the
birth, life, karma, death, which happens within the illusory world is bound to
be illusion. Thus theory based on the
birth entity [ego] has no value.
Everyone
is creating karma every minute, and the karma they create affects them every
minute. It’s common to think of "my karma" as something one did in his
last life that seals his fate in this life. Karma is an action, not a result.
The future is not set in stone. One can change the course of his life right now
by changing his volitional acts and self-destructive patterns.
When the
self is not physical but formless consciousness, how can the karma theory which
is based on the false physical entity holding the illusion as reality can be
true. The dream entity does karmas within the dream and the dream becomes
unreal when the waking takes place. Deeper inquiry, analysis and
reasoning reels the fact that, the waking also is unreal. Thus, whatever action happened
with in the illusion cannot be real. Therefore, the karma theory is false
theory based on the false self, within the false experience.
Essence of scriptuers: - Dehum- Nahum-Kohum –Sohum – which indicates the
body is not the self – the self is that. Which clearly indicates the self is
without the body. Therefore, the self is the formless knower of the body and
the world. Without the body and the world, the self is free from birth life and
death. Therefore, karma theory, which is based on the idea of birth,
life, death and rebirth are part of the illusion from ultimate standpoint. Thus
one has to learn to view and judge the worldview from ultimate standpoint to
know what is truth and what is not truth.
Karma is universal principle only on
the base of false self [ego], within the illusion. The cause and effect is
reality, only on the base of false self. The fact is Atman or the soul
is the true self, which is in the form of consciousness and Atman or soul is
uncaused. Buddhism says, there is nothing - nonentity. Advaita says
there is some reality, even though things are not what they appear to be.
If one knows the ultimate truth or Brahman, he
will know there is neither cause nor effect. Self-knowledge is to know, what is it,
that is Real.
When reasoning is done on true base,
one has the yardstick to know what is truth, and what is untruth, and he will
be able to reject the unreal/untruth mentally. Therefore, one has to make
sure whether the true self is body/ego/I, or true self is soul/Atman, which is
in the form of consciousness.
If one accepts the self as
body, then the karma becomes universal principal. If one accepts the
soul or consciousness as self, then the physical body, ego, world and whatever one
has seen known and believed and experienced as a person becomes unreal[mirage]
on the standpoint of the soul as self.
By accepting karma theory, one
is accepting the unreal as real, and permanently remains in the clutches of
duality thinking the cycle of birth, life and death as reality.
Therefore, to overcome the illusory cycle of birth, life and death, one has to
know the fact that, the body or ego or waking entity is not the self, but the formless soul is
the true self. Thus the self is within the mind [universe] but it is without
the mind [universe]. Thus the self is within the ‘I’ but it is
without the ‘I’. Thus one has to realize the fact that, the reincarnation is
part of the illusion.
