[Advaita-l] Fw: Re: karma - revisited - I

Shyam shyam_md at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 18 09:39:31 CDT 2008


PranAms NArAyan-ji
I had articulated my understanding about this previously:

http://poornamadam.blogspot.com/2008/04/free-will-determinism-prarabdha.html

Hari OM
Shri Gurubhyoh namah
Shyam

> 
> --- On Thu, 9/18/08, narayan iyer
> <z1e1b1r1a at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: narayan iyer <z1e1b1r1a at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [Advaita-l] karma - revisited - I
> > To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> > Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 1:23 AM
> > Sirs,
> > 
> > While going through the message archives of Oct. 2001,
> a
> > query was initiated by Sri Prasad "in a bad deed
> (A)
> > done by (X) to(Y), does the karma count of(X) go up
> (due to
> > bad deed) or does it remain constant as he was to do
> action
> > (A)on account of purva janma karma.
> > 
> > There were  responses from learned  members like Sri K
> > Sadananda, Sri Jaladhar Vyas etc. before the querry
> lost
> > steam and petered out.  The overall consensus appeared
> that
> > (X) should have used freewill and refrained from (A)
> so as
> > to not increase his bad karma.
> > 
> > The otherside of the question, viz. the karma effect
> on (Y)
> > was not addressed to.  If (Y) was to be recipient of
> (A) due
> > to his purva janma, and if (X) exercising his freewill
> > refrains from action (A), how does (Y)'s purva
> janma
> > effect gets neutralised?  Does it mean one man's
> > freewill can affect the prarabda of another?
> > 
> > There are numerous supplementary questions arising out
> of
> > the above and I would like to post them in parts so
> that
> > focus does not get distracted.
> > 
> > with regards,
> > 
> > narayan 
> > 
> >


      



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