[Advaita-l] Mundakopanishat article series - Part 11

[Ravi Kiran]

Namaste Subrahmanian Ji and Sadananda Ji

Pranams.

Thank you for the explanation. So, from Jnani's standpoint -

Since the doership or enjoyership agent does not arise, in the light of the
Jnana, for such a one, there is only experiencing alone of one's True
nature/Self, as the Sruti says -

For, when there is duality, as it were, one sees another …but when all has
become just his Ātman, what could one see and through what? .. - Br. Up.
4.5.15


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 2:57 PM, V Subrahmanian <v.subrahmanian at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Ravi Kiran <ravikiranm108 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Namaste Subrahmanian Ji
>>
>> Nice sharing. In your article, it is mentioned that :
>>
>> those actions the Jñānī, the realized person, would perform subsequent to
>> his realization, till the fall of the body, will also not bear fruit.  The
>> reason for this is that those actions will be performed without the ‘I am
>> the doer’ notion as the ignorance that creates such a notion is no more for
>> him.  Hence, these, known as āgāmi karma, cannot bear fruit giving him
>> further births.  Birth is caused only by actions which have ignorance as
>> their basis.
>>
>> So, such actions dont fall under the ambit of karma ( as karma always
>> bear fruit),  it is seen as akarma
>>
>> While, such a one undertakes loka seva / lokasaṃgrah activities, can we
>> say that it will not result in further births, but generates punya phalam ?
>>
>
> Dear Sri Ravi Kiran,
>
> The above mentioned acts are also done by the Jnani with the 'I am not the
> doer' bhāva alone.  And hence they do not generate puṇya phala for him that
> would result in any further birth.  These actions are like burnt seeds, not
> fit for germination.  That is the example given by the śāstram.
>
> warm regards
> subrahmanian.v
>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:55 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
>> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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>>> The Mundakopanishat article Part 11 is available here for reading:
>>>
>>> http://advaita-academy.org/Articles/The-muNDakopaniShat---Part-11.ashx
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>>> subrahmanian.v
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