Sage Sankara says Karma is not competent to remove ignorance.+

Sage Sankara From the point of any of these four uses karma is of no use for attaining liberation. Remaining in one's own true form is release. It consists in realizing the true nature of the Self which is ever-existent and eternal. Moksha, therefore, is not something to be produced, for it is eternal (nityatvat). It is not something to be purified, for it is bereft of all qualities and impurities (nirgunatvat, nirdoshatvat cha). There is also another reason here. It cannot be purified since it is not a means (asadhanadravyatmakatvat). Only a thing that serves as a means can be purified, such as the sacrificial vessel or clarified butter by sprinkling of water and so on. (Commentary on Bhr, Upanishads 3-3-1)

Sage Sankara says Karma is not competent to remove ignorance, for it is not opposed to it. It does not matter in what way we characterize ignorance, whether as absence of knowledge or as doubt or as erroneous knowledge. It is always removable by knowledge, but not by action in any of its forms, for there is no contradiction between ignorance and karma. (Commentary on Brah.3-3-1 )

Sage Sri Sankara: ~ Action (karma) cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with or opposed to ignorance. Knowledge does verily destroy ignorance as light destroys deep darkness. -Atma Bodha

Then the karma theory has no value. The karma theory is merely a religious fable meant for ignorant masses. The karma theory is not the means to acquire Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana.

According to Advaita Vedanta, the Veda addresses itself to two kinds of audiences - the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices, and the more advanced seeker who seeks to know Brahman. Thus, the purva mimam. sa, with its emphasis on the Karma kanda of the Vedas, is meant for the first audience, to help lead its followers along the way. However, the Vedanta, with its emphasis on the jnana kanda, is meant for those who wish to go beyond such transient pleasures.

The Orthodox people are ordinary people. Thus the ordinary ones who desire the transitory heaven and other pleasures obtained as a result of ritual sacrifices. The Karma kanda of the Vedas is meant for the ordinary audience, to help lead its followers along the way.

The Soul, the Self is birthless; because it is formless the question of karma does not arise. The karma theory is based on the birth entity.

Karma is a reality within the scope of form, time, and space (universe or duality) whereas the Soul, the Self is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The religion is based on the birth entity. Whatever is based on the birth entity is bound to be falsehood because the Self is not the birth entity because the Self is birthless.

Sage Goudapada said: ~ “The merciful Veda teaches karma and Upaasana to people of lower and middling intellect, while Jnana is taught to those of higher intellect. Thus Sage Sri Goudapada suggests that the religious paths and worship of the Guru and conceptual God are lower and middling intellect. But in this modern world, people are sharp enough to understand and assimilate the ultimate truth or Brahman or God. Thus people who want the higher truth then it is high time to discard the lower knowledge and move ahead to realize the ultimate truth, which is Brahman or God.

The one who thinks he is an independent apart from the world and believes in action (karma) is not aware that, the world in which he exists is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The Karma which is done in a previous life, and produces the present life is a mere religious theory based on the false Self (you) and false experience (waking).

You are not the ‘Self,’ but the ‘Self’ is the invisible Soul then how karma done in the previous life can produce present life when the Soul, the ‘Self’ is birthless and deathless because it is the ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. That is why self-knowledge is necessary to realize the ‘self’ is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

The karma theory is based on the birth entity, which is the false self whereas the Soul, the Self is birthless. The Soul is birthless because it is unborn

The Karma theory has no value in the realm of truth, as the Self has no birth. The one who is born lives and dies is the false entity (you) within the false experience (waking experience).

Just as the body and the world in a dream are superimposed and therefore illusory, so is also this body and the world of the waking is superimposed. The birth, life, death, and world are part of the waking experience and the waking is superimposed, and in the absence of waking, which contains the body and the world there is no room for karma at all.

All the activities are happening within the illusion. One engages in all these activities within the illusion.

Thus karma theory which is based on the individual activity is bound to be the false theory because it is based on the false Self (waking entity or you) within the false experience (waking).

When the experience of birth, life, death, and the world is an illusion then how karma will affect the Self, which is ever birthless.

The Karma theory says that consciousness is different from the body and permanent, as it endures even after the fall of the body and reaps the fruits of actions done in this life.

When the body is not the doer or the Self how it can reap the fruits of action of the last life when it is not the doer or the Self in the next life. When the Soul, the Self is unborn then how can it be reborn? Thus karma theory is based on the false entity and has accepted the false entity as the Self.

When the Self is not the body (‘ego or waking entity’) then whatever one sees, knows, believes, experiences, and feels on the base of the body (‘ego or waking entity’) as the Self is bound to be an illusion. Thus, the karma performed in illusion is bound to be an illusion. The birth, life, and death are happening within the illusion; therefore it is bound to be an illusion.

Thus, rebirth and reincarnation theories based on the false Self within the false experience are bound to be an illusion on the base of the true Self. Only the witness of the illusion is real (Brahman). Therefore, everything has to be viewed and judged, on the base of the Formless Witness (Soul or consciousness) to overcome the illusion/duality.

The law of karma holds reality only on the base of the birth entity. The one which is born lives and dies in this world is not the Self because the Self is the Soul, which is birthless and deathless. It is birthless and deathless because it is ever formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

From the standpoint of the Soul, the Self the world in which you exist is an illusion. Therefore, the karma performed within the illusion is bound to be an illusion.

The karma theory has nothing to do with the birthless Soul, the Self because the Soul, the Self is ever deathless, because, it is birthless because it is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

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