Talk:Transcending Karm through Mokṣa:YJnāna Yog and Karm:Destruction of Sanchita Karm by Jnāna Yog

By Vishal Agarwal

When a person perfects jñāna-yog, his ātmā attains parity with Paramātmā or Brahman, and good and evil fruit of karm no longer stick to him. They are all destroyed by the fire of spiritual wisdom–

Just as a fluffy tip of a reed placed in fire burns away completely, similarly all his evils are burnt away. Sāmaveda, Chāndogya Upaniṣad 5.24.3

Then the enlightened one completely shakes off both virtue and vice, becomes taintless, and attains absolute equality (to Brahman). Atharvaveda, Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 3.1.3

When a person who is endowed with spiritual knowledge is firmly established in the Paramātman, he destroys the effects of his bad and good karmas. But as long as he does not experience the Paramātman, he has to experience sometimes the fruit of his good karm, sometimes the fruit of his bad karm. Mahābhārata 5.42.24

Even if you are the most evil amongst evil-doers, you will cross all wickedness by the boat of knowledge alone. Gītā 4.36

Arjuna, just as the fire which is kindled reduces firewood to ashes, so does the fire of knowledge reduce all karm to ashes. Gītā 4.37

Just as a bright and flaming fire consumes the fuel placed in it within a moment, likewise he who knows the Vedas destroys all evil by the fire of jñāna. Manusmṛti 11.247

Just as a blazing fire incinerates all fuel, whether it is dry or soaked in water; in the same way, the fire of knowledge reduces to ashes within a moment all of one’s evil as well as good karm. Śivadharmottara Upapurāṇa 3.47

Sañcita-karmas are destroyed by the firm knowledge, ‘I am the Truth (Brahman) alone.’ Tattvabodha of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

In fact,śāstrā exhort us to honor a knower of Brahman and not hurt them in any way because the saint’s evil deeds (i.e., their negative saṃskāra-s) are transferred to his enemies and good deeds are transferred to his benefactors, friends and family–

His sons inherit his properties, the ancestors his virtuous deeds, and the enemies his vicious deeds. Sāmaveda, Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa 1.50

He shakes off both virtues and vices; his beloved relatives get his virtues and his hated relatives his vices. Ṛgveda, Kauṣītakī Upaniṣad 1.4

Making over the merit of his own good deeds to his friends and the guilt of his evil deeds to his enemies, he attains the eternal Brahman by the practice of meditation. Manusmṛti 6.79