Karma 5

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be thrust upon one whether one wills them or not. Question: The realised man

has no further Karma. He is not bound by his Karma. Why should he still remain

within his body? Sri Ramana Maharshi: Who asks this question? Is it the

realised man or the Ajnani (ignorant)? Why should you bother what the Jnani

(Self-realised) does or why he does anything? Look after yourself. You are now

under the impression you are the body and so you think that the Jnani also has

a body. Does the Jnani say he has a body? He may look to you as if he has a

body and he may appear to be doing things with the body, as others do, but he

himself knows

that he is bodiless. The burnt rope still looks like a rope, but it can’t serve

as a rope if you try to bind anything with it. A Jnani is like that – he may

look like other people, but this is only an outer appearance. So long as one

identifies oneself with the body, all this is difficult to understand. That is

why it is sometimes said in reply to such questions, ‘The body of the Jnani will

continue till the force of Prarabdha works itself out, and after the Prarabdha

is exhausted it will drop off’. An illustration made use of in this connection

is that of an arrow already discharged which will continue to advance and

strike its target. But the truth is the Jnani has transcended all Karmas,

including the Prarabdha Karma, and he is not bound by the body or its Karmas.

windowtext; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Not even an iota of Prarabdha exists

for those who uninterruptedly attend to space of consciousness, which always

shines as ‘I am’, which is not confined in the vast physical space, and which

pervades everywhere without limitations. Such alone is the meaning of the

ancient saying, ‘There is no fate for those who reach or experience the

heavens’. Sivaya Namah

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