[Advaita-l] Ananda Ramayana

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, Kaushik Chevendra wrote:

>       Shankaracharya answers that karma
>       only adheres to a particular body.  It is not a characteristic
>       of the true
>       self.
> 
> But the actions of previous life(another body) affect the present one. And
> the action of present body affects the future one. How can that be so if the
> above is true? 
>

It is that bundle of karmas that has accumulated which results in the 
repeated assumption of new bodies and the delusion that "I am this body." 
This in turn causes more karma and more rebirth infinitely.

By contrast when a yogi or devata takes a body in the way mentioned 
previously it is only instrumental and does not affect him just we 
wouldn't e.g. arrest an actor for murder because his character shot a 
villain in some film action scene.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>