The karma goes to the deceased person's close relatives? That's what MMY said
in one of his books. I'm pretty sure it was the Science of Being book.
"Under the influence of maya, Brahman appears as Ishvara, the personal God, who
exists on the celestial level of life, in the subtlest field of creation. In a
similar manner, under the influence of avidya, atman appears as jiva, or
individual soul."
- MMY
--- On Mon, 8/30/10, emptybill <emptyb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: emptybill <emptyb...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [FairfieldLife] What happens to the karma of a jivanmukti?
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, August 30, 2010, 11:07 PM
Sanchit karma is the stored reserve of karmic sanskara-s. Rather than being
just imprints, sanskara-s are described as being the seeds for further actions.
However, when a person liberates (jivan-mukta) from misidentification, these
seeds are said to be "burned" and unable to germinate. This is said to be a
final state – no more necessity for rebirth.
This is a agricultural metaphor and is a useful way to consider the idea of
living liberation. However, what is not considered is the remaining cause and
effect relationship between those former actions and their own specific
results/effects.
What happens to those effects? The doer is gone … a mere fiction that has now
disappeared from the arena of actions and their results. Even before that
happens, the yogin/yogini realizes that the guna-s only interact among
themselves. Yet, up until complete liberation, there were causal actions being
performed (even right up to liberation) that will effectuate in the future. The
final, manifest effects of these seed-samskaras however cannot be explained by
this metaphor since a cause without an effect is philosophically meaningless.
Thus the question … "who" gets the consequences of actions performed by an
individual when that person no longer exists and will not be reborn at all …
not even in some heavenly world?Saying "everyone" somehow gets a little bit of
that left over karma is a statement that fails to understand the question.
Moral/immoral karma is not simply some kind of "consequence" which everyone can
receive – as if it was just like rain on a cloudy day.
