Sankaracarya's Vivekachudamani 455

प्राब्धं बलवत्तरं खलु विदां भोगेन तस्य क्षयः

सम्यग्ज्ञानहुताशनेन विलयः प्राक्षंचितागामिनाम् ।

ब्रह्मात्मैक्यमवेक्ष्य तन्मायातया ये सर्वदा संस्थिताः

तेषां तत्त्रितयं नहि क्वचिदपि ब्रह्मैव ते निर्गुणम् ॥

prābdhaṃ balavattaraṃ khalu vidāṃ bhogena tasya kṣayaḥ

samyagjñānahutāśanena vilayaḥ prākṣaṃcitāgāminām |

brahmātmaikyamavekṣya tanMāyātayā ye sarvadā saṃsthitāḥ

teṣāṃ tattritayaṃ nahi kvacidapi brahmaiva te nirguṇam

(Sankaracarya's Vivekachudamani 455)

Prarabdha is very powerful indeed for the realized person and becomes naught only through the exhaustion of its fruits; while the sancita and agami karmas are dissolved in the fire of perfect Knowledge. But none of these three affect those who have realized Brahman and always live established in It. They are truly the Transcendental Brahman.

Prarabdha work is certainly very strong for the man of realization and is spent only by the actual experience of its fruit; while the actions previously accumulated and those yet to come are destroyed by the fire of perfect knowledge. But none of the three at all affects those who, realizing their identity with Brahman, are always living absorbed in that idea. They are verily the transcendent Brahman.