Theos-Talk Archives (April 1999 Message tt00090)

> Peter, Peter. Please look at what you are saying here.
> It is exactly the fact that we can "get rid of" karma at
> all that I have been talking about. You and others keep
> insisting that we can never "get rid of" it. Getting rid of
> karma IS liberation.
>
> Jerry S.


Maybe not.    Getting rid of the fruit of  karma (karma-phala) is possible.
Getting rid of karma, which Buddha defines as will or motive (cetana) may
not be.  Even "getting rid" may not work, although the burnt seeds simile is
used to explain the non-effect of "neither-black-nor-white" karma.  See YOGA
SUTRAS IV 7:  "The karma of the yogin is neither white nor black, of the
others [ordinary folk] it is of three kinds."   So the yogi has a fourth
kind of karma, not no karma.

Vivekananda comments: "When the Yogi has attained perfection, his actions,
and the Karma produced by those actions, do not bind him, because he did not
desire them.  He just works on; he works to do good, and he does good, but
does not care for the result, and it will not come to him."

Best,

Nicholas


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