Saturday, 15 January 2022

Taittiriya Vartika, verse-24:~ There is also another reason for rejecting this view. Karma involves duality in the form of means and end, doer and deed. The perception of duality is ignorance.+

Sage Sankara says:~Karma is not competent to remove ignorance, for it is not opposed to it. It does not matter in what way we characterized ignorance, whether as the absence of knowledge or as doubt or as erroneous knowledge. It is always removable by knowledge, but not by action in any of its forms, for there is no contradiction between ignorance and karma. (Commentary on Brah.3-3-1 )
Taittiriya Vartika, verse-24:~ There is also another reason for rejecting this view. Karma involves duality in the form of means and end, doer and deed. The perception of duality is ignorance. Further, it is only a person who has a desire to perform karma. Since he is ignorant of the non-dual Self, he thinks that there are objects other than the Self which he should strive for and that there are persons for whom he should suffer in his body. "He struggles to desire something for himSelf, something else for his son, the third thing for his wife and so on and gets involved in the cycle of births and deaths." (Brh. Up. Sage Sankara's Commentary, 4-4-12)
In short, karma presupposes desire, involves duality, and is, therefore, a product of avidya. If so, how can it destroy avidya, the root cause of bondage, and thereby cause liberation?
Remember:~
In the orthodox analysis, human life and behavior are explained on the basis of the theory of karma, which sets the cycle of rebirths into motion.
All actions, good or bad, create their own karmic residues called Vasanas, which exhibit their results over a period of time. The karma which has already started taking fruit is called Prarabdha Karma.
This is the karma that is responsible for the current birth. The accumulated karma which is yet to take fruit is called sancita karma. As long as the cycle of rebirth continues, more karma will be done in the future, and this is called Again karma.
Liberation (moksha) is the way out of this endless cycle. The karma theory is merely a religious and yogic fable.
Sage Sankara: ~ “Action (karma) cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with or opposed to ignorance.
Knowledge does verily destroy ignorance as light destroys deep darkness. -Atma Bodha
Karma (Action) will not dispel ignorance itself. Karma itself is based on ignorance Only Self-Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana will destroy ignorance.
The person who bases on the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is trying to find the meaning of life. There is no meaning or purpose in life because life is merely happening within the dualistic illusion.:~Santthosh Kumaar

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