Religious people believe that the Karma theory is a universal theory. The Karma theory is a religious and yogic fable.
The Karma theory is a universal theory for those who believe the illusory universe or Maya as a reality.
Karma is a reality only for those who believe the false Self (ego or you) as the real Self and the false experience (waking or universe) as a reality.
The Karma theory is a reality for those who believe in the experience of birth, life, death, and rebirth, and the world as a reality.
The karma performed in the dream becomes unreal when the waking takes place. Similarly, the waking karma becomes unreal when wisdom dawns.
The karma theory is the universal theory when karma is limited to the waking experience alone.
The wisdom dawns when you (doer of karma) realize you are not the Self, but the Self is the formless Soul.
Thus, all theories based on you (form) are falsehood because the Soul, the Self, is an ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.
If the Self is not the waking entity but the formless Soul, then how can anyone accept the theory of karma, which is based on the false self within the false experience?
Thus, whatever theories are based on the false self (waking entity or ego) and false experience (the waking) is bound to be a falsehood.
Karma is a reality only for those who are stuck with the reality of the practical life within the practical world because they have accepted the world as a reality.
The Self is not you. If the Self is not you, then the question of your body, your ego, your memories, your experience of the world, and your karma is nothing to do with the Soul, the Self.
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 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 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 Shruti is to negate Prarabdha as well.
99. If the ignorant still arbitrarily maintain this, they will not only involve themselves in 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 from the dualistic perspective. From the non-dualistic perspective, the Karma theory has no value.
The Advaitic orthodoxy is based on the birth entity, so it accepts the karma theory as a reality. The karma theory is the theory of ignorance.
If you accept the karma theory as a reality, you will never be able to come out of ignorance. And ignorance makes you believe the cycle of birth, life, and death as a reality.
Thus, the freedom that you are seeking will remain a distant dream. For the one who accepts birth, karma, and death as reality is unfit to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana. : ~Santthosh Kumaar
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