[Advaita-l] How is prarabdha karma alloted to a jiva ?

[Setu Srivatsa]

Hello everyone. Please accept my humble Pranams. I dont know how to ask
doubts on this platform. But I have few doubts on Advaitha. Can you please
help me.
Brahman is defined as Existence,Consciousness and Bliss(Satchitananda).
Aitareya Upanishad 3.1.3 says Brahman is consciousness and pure awareness.
Isa Upanishad 1 says it's all pervading.

1)But how can Brahman or Awareness or Consciousness be there and be all
pervading in Non Living things like Pots,Ornaments etc which have no sense
of awareness or Atman?

2)How can Brahman be all pervading as Isa Upanishad says when it's just
pure awareness ? It only exists individually as Awareness or life force or
Atman in all beings. Atman is just awareness. I am not the
body,mind,intellect. This same I is in all. How does that mean this
awareness is all pervading???

3)What is the Sat feature of Brahman?? What exactly is that existence that
is conscious of all things including non living things??

4)How to see one's self alone in all non living things which don't have
Atman and in what sense the whole Universe is our body as per Brahma Vidya
Meditations??

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 7:23 PM Sudhakar Kabra via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

>  Pls read inbetween:
> My question is…
>
> …in the next Life
>
> Does the same Jiva A1 & A2 reincarnate?
>
> If so, then A1 will have to inherit prarabdha “x” & A2 inherits prarabdha
> “y”.  This leads to a finite amount of Jivas. How can there be a finite
> number of Jivas ?
>
>
> Jivas are all living beings. There are 84 lac yonis and migration in
> between them is also possible.So it is not a simple linear relationship as
> you mention. Humans can take animal births and vice versa.There is no way
> logic can fathom that.
>
>
> If not, then there is no specific identity traversal, hence while attaining
> Moksha who is Liberated?
>
> The jiva who attains moksha gets liberated. Normal rule is via human birth
> but there are instances and exceptions otherwise.
>
>
> Since there is reincarnation,there must be a certain identity traversal
> between lives. Since face, colour, region, etc are different, we consider
> that the “karmas” as the determining factor. But if
>
> “By definition, a jiva is the bundle of karma and its effects that persists
> from life to life.”
>
> What determines this bundle.
>
> The present karma (kriyamana karma) determines the future bundle.
>
> Of course, we could believe that these karma phalams are determined by
> ISWARA and hence ISWARA is kartha, it is not deterministic. But, is there
> any other alternatives to tackle this?
>
>
> Ishwara is not a karta. There is no kartritwa bhavana or else he can be
> termed partial. It is the law of karma that functions meticulously under
> him.
> Is Advaita purely based on faith ?
> Without faith nothing is possible. It keeps you going on this life
> journey.As one progresses he can see milestones going as mentioned in
> shashtras .When knowledge fails, faith takes over.
>
> Regards,S.Kabra
>
>
>
>     On Friday, February 26, 2021, 12:57:03 PM GMT+5:30, Mahadevan Iyer via
> Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
>  Pranams,
>
> Thank you for the replies & recommendations.
>
> I would clarify the question.
>
> I understand that vyavaharika ( transactional ) level is mithya.
>
> In Advaita, it is postulated that apparently, the life situations of a
> particular Jiva is due to his respective prior life karmas.
>
> So if we suppose,
>
> …in the current Life
>
> A Jiva “A1” doing karma “k1” yields punyam “x” & dies. [ A1:k1  ->  x ]
>
> Another Jiva “B1” doing karma “k2” yields paapam “y” & dies. [ B1:k2 -> y ]
>
> Hence Sanchita Karma is the set [ ……..x,y,…….. ]
>
> My question is…
>
> …in the next Life
>
> Does the same Jiva A1 & A2 reincarnate?
>
> If so, then A1 will have to inherit prarabdha “x” & A2 inherits prarabdha
> “y”.  This leads to a finite amount of Jivas. How can there be a finite
> number of Jivas ?
>
> If not, then there is no specific identity traversal, hence while attaining
> Moksha who is Liberated?
>
> Since there is reincarnation,there must be a certain identity traversal
> between lives. Since face, colour, region, etc are different, we consider
> that the “karmas” as the determining factor. But if
>
> “By definition, a jiva is the bundle of karma and its effects that persists
> from life to life.”
>
> What determines this bundle.
>
> Of course, we could believe that these karma phalams are determined by
> ISWARA and hence ISWARA is kartha, it is not deterministic. But, is there
> any other alternatives to tackle this?
>
> Is Advaita purely based on faith ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mahadevan
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