If one accepts the karma theory as a reality, he will never be able to come out of the ignorance.+

The karma implies duality. From the ultimate standpoint, the duality is an illusion.

People's observation is based on a dualistic perspective, whereas Gnanin's judgment is based on the nondualistic (Soul or consciousness) perspective.

What is the use of discussing the karma, which takes place within the unreal world? Instead, one has to find how this world is unreal (an illusion).

In Atmic discussion, the form, time, and space (universe) are merely an illusion. The karma is possible within the scope of the experience of the form, time, and space (universe).

That is why Sage Goudpada said:~ The merciful Veda teaches karma and Upasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while Jnana is taught to those of higher intellect.

When the Self is not the form, but the Self is the formless Soul, then whose karma. The one which is born lives and dies is not the Self then the question of karma does not arise. Waking entity (you) is the false self within the false experience (waking).

Thus, whatever action and inaction, past, present, and future, belong to the waking experience, which is falsehood.

What happens to the dream entity which did good karma in the dream world and it died and reincarnated in the next life and suffered but when waking takes place the dream becomes unreal.

The waking becomes unreal when the waking entity (you) realizes the fact that it, itSelf (you), is not the Self but the invisible Soul. The Self is the invisible Soul, which witnesses the coming and going of the three states in succession.

Thus neither karma of waking entity nor the karma of dream entity has meaning because the Self is neither the waking entity nor the Self is dream entity but the Self is the invisible and unborn Soul.

You are not the Self because you are the birth entity; you are bound by form, time and space whereas the Self is unborn eternal then how the karma theory has any meaning when the karma theory based on the false self (you) and false experience (world)?

The karma theory is a religious fable meant for the people who are fully immersed in the practical life and practical world, believing the experience of birth, life, death, and the world as reality.

If the invisible Soul, the Self, is unborn and eternal, then what values the karma theory will have because it is based on birth, life, death and rebirth.

The karma theory is merely a religious and yogic fable.

The karmic account is never-ending because one has to be born again and again to reap their good or bad karma carried forward one life to the next. The karma theory is merely a religious and yogic fable.

Sage Sankara says in Aparoksh Anubhuti:- “88. When the whole universe, movable and immovable, is known to be Atman, and thus the existence of everything else is negated, where is then any room to say that the body is Atman?

89. O enlightened one, pass your time always contemplating on Atman while you are experiencing all the results of Prarabdha; for it ill becomes you to feel distressed.

90. The theory one hears of from the scripture, that Prarabdha does not lose its hold upon one even after the origination of the knowledge of Atman, is now being refuted.

91. After the origination of the knowledge of Reality, Prarabdha verily ceases to exist, inasmuch as the body and the like become non-existent; just as a dream does not exist on waking.

92. That Karma which is done in a previous life is known as Prarabdha (which produces the present life). But such Karma cannot take the place of Prarabdha (for a man of knowledge), as he has no other birth (being free from ego).

93. Just as the body in a dream is superimposed (and therefore illusory), so is also this body. How could there be any birth of the superimposed (body), and in the absence of birth (of the body), where is the room for that (i.e., Prarabdha) at all?

94. The Vedanta texts declare ignorance to be verily the material (cause) of the phenomenal world, just as earth is of a jar. That (ignorance) being destroyed, where can the universe subsist?

95. Just as a person, out of confusion, perceives only the snake, leaving aside the rope, so does an ignorant person see only the phenomenal world without knowing the reality?

96. The real nature of the rope being known, the appearance of the snake no longer persists; so the substratum being known, the phenomenal world disappears completely.

97. The body also being within the phenomenal world (and therefore unreal), how could Prarabdha exist? It is, therefore, for the understanding of the ignorant alone that the Shruti speaks of Prarabdha.

98. “And all the actions of a man perish when he realizes that (Atman) which is both the higher and the lower”. Here, the clear use of the plural by the Shruti is to negate Prarabdha as well.

99. If the ignorant still arbitrarily maintain this, they will not only involve themselves in two absurdities but will also run the risk of foregoing the Vedantic conclusion. So one should accept those Shrutis alone from which proceeds true knowledge.

The above proves that the karma is reality only on the base of the false self, where one thinks body and the universe as reality. When one becomes aware that, the true Self is the formless Soul, then the karma becomes part and parcel of illusion.

If one accepts the karma theory as a reality, they will never be able to come out of ignorance. And ignorance makes him believe the cycle of birth, life, and death as reality.

Thus, the freedom that one is seeking will remain a distant dream. For the one who accepts birth, life, and death as reality, Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is impossible : ~Santthosh Kumaar