Orthodox Advaitins accept karma theory. If you accept the karma theory, then you will not be able to acquire the Advaitic wisdom of Sage Sri, Sankara.
If one accepts karma theory then it is impossible to treat the world as an illusion. All the pundits’ explanation of karma theory carries no weight, on the realm of truth because if karma is accepted they are accepting the false Self (ego or body) as the real Self and false experience (the waking) as a reality.
From the standpoint of the Soul, the innermost Self, the experience of the birth, life, death, and the world are part of the waking experience. The waking experience itself is merely an illusion.
It is no use of saying that, we are not born, we do not die because we all were born and we all are going to die. However, the birth, life, and death are part of the illusion, which comes and goes as waking experience. The formless witness of the three states is real, which is our identity has no birth and death. That is why Self-knowledge is nothing to do with the religious-based Advaita, which is based on Vedas.
The Karma theory is a religious fable. The Karma theory is based on the birth entity whereas the Self is birthless. From the standpoint of the birthless Self, the experience of birth, life, death, and the world are merely an illusion. Thus, the karma done on the illusory Self within the illusory world is bound to be an illusion.
Karma theory is based on the false self within the false experience. religious people believe KARMA or the physical action or conduct, its consequences, the sum of all consequences in this or another life, the chain of cause and effect resulting from "good" and "bad" deeds, such that everyone is conditioned and determined by his conduct over a span of lifetimes.
The Scripters say that: - “According to as one act, according to as one conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action."
From the nondualistic perspective, the Karma theory is a religious fable. The karma theory is based on the birth entity. The birth entity is the false self (you) within the false experience (waking). The one, which is born, lives and dies, is not the Self but the ‘Self is the Soul, which the ever birthless and deathless because it is the formless, timeless and spaceless existence.
When the Self is birthless Soul then whatever actions and conduct based on the birth entity, is bound to be a falsehood. Therefore, whatever good or actions performed within the false experience (waking) is bound to be a falsehood.
The cause and effect imply duality. There is no duality in nondualistic reality. From the standpoint of birthless Soul, the innermost Self, there is no cause and effect because there is no second thing exist other than the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.
Karma is bondage. Karma theory makes one accept the false self [ego] as the true self and false experience [universe] as a reality.
Karma doctrine propagated by the religion and Gurus of the past is so ingrained in people's lives in India. Most people inherited karma doctrine based conditioning which is helpful and convenient use as a tool to judge modify their actions in the present life, in the fear of avoidance of suffering in the next life. Thus, they accepted them as truth. This accepted truth becomes an obstacle for those who are seeking the truth.
The karma theory is meant for those who are immersed in worldly life thinking the individual life within the particle world as a reality. In the path of truth, the karma theory becomes a great obstacle in realizing the truth.
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) as real, and world as reality.
When Sage Sankara declares the world itself is an illusion, and Brahman is real, then 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) in order to overcome the duality, which he is experiencing it as a reality.
The individuality is a reality within the illusory world. Therefore, all the theories created within the illusion on the base of the 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, the Soul, the innermost Self is real and eternal and all else is an illusion, to overcome the illusory experience of the birth, life, death, and the world.
To realize Sage Sri, Sankara’s Advaitic truth, the seeker has to do his own homework through inquiry, analysis, and reasoning on the true base, without mixing religion, scriptures, theories concept of God and yoga.
Sage Sri 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 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 Srutis alone from which proceeds true knowledge.
The above proves that karma is a reality only on the base of a false Self, where one thinks the body and the universes as reality. When one becomes aware of the fact that, the true Self is the 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, Self-knowledge is impossible. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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