When the Self is not the form but the Self is the formless Soul, then whose karma. The one which is born lives and dies is not the Self. If the ‘Self is not you but the Soul then the question of karma does not arise.
The waking entity (ego or you) is the false Self within the false experience (waking). Thus, whatever action and inaction, past, present, and future belong to the waking experience from the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the waking experience is merely an illusion.
Thus, whatever happens within the illusion is bound to be an illusion. Thus, the karma theory is based on the illusory Self within the illusory world is bound to be an illusory theory.
What happens to the dream entity which did good karma within the dream world and it died and reincarnated in the next life and suffered, but when the waking takes place the dream becomes unreal.
The waking becomes unreal when the waking entity (you) realizes the fact that, it, itself (you) is not the Self but the Self is the formless Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession.
Thus, neither the karma of the waking entity nor the karma of the dream entity has meaning because the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is the dream entity but the Self is a formless Soul, which is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
Karma is possible only in the domain of form, time, and space. From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self, the form, time, and space are merely an illusion.
If form, time, and space are merely an illusion then the experience of birth, life, death, and the world are merely an illusion. If the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is merely an illusion then the karma theory is bound to be an illusory theory.
You are not the Self because you are the birth entity; you are bound by form, time, and space whereas the Self is Birthless then how the karma theory has any meaning when the karma theory is based on the false Self (you) and false experience (world).
The karma theory is a religious fable meant for people who are fully immersed in the practical life and practical world believing the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality.
If the Self is birthless then what values the karma theory will have because the karma theory is based on birth, life, death, and rebirth.
The karma theory is merely a religious and yogic fable. The one who believes in karma theory is unfit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.
Remember:
Sage Ramakrishna Paramahansa Sage Ramana, Maharishi J. Krishnamurthy, and Nisargadatta Maharajah, all died of cancer-type illness. It does not make any difference if they die of cancer or not of cancer or any illness. Even Lord Krishna died a painful death. The death is certain the cause of death is irrelevant to a Gnani.
When the Self is birthless then it is deathless A Gnani is unconcerned about the death because he is fully aware that the illusion is only a passing show. The karma theory has nothing to do with the birthless Self. Thus, people’s painful death cannot be taken as evidence because the Self is ever deathless, it is unborn because it is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
The karmic account is never-ending because one has to be born again and again to reap his good or bad karma carried forward from one life to the next. To end his karmic account one has to be born in a religion, which does not accept the karma theory in his next birth. The karma theory is merely a religious and yogic fable.
As per Sage Sankara: ~
The karma theory is a merely religious and yogic fable. 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 path of 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.
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 will 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, since the body and the like become non-existent; just as a dream does not exist in 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 of the 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 ignorance. And ignorance makes him believe the cycle of birth, life, and death as a reality.
Thus the freedom that one is seeking will remain a distant dream. For the one who accepts birth, life, death, and the world as reality, Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is impossible. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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