[Advaita-l] Ananda Ramayana

[Kaushik Chevendra]

Understood sir.

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, 12:44 , <jaldhar at braincells.com> wrote:

> 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>