Sloka 33, Ulladu Narpadu - Part II / Ramana Maharshi / Indian Philosophy

English Translations:

1.     Truth  Revealed  / Grant Duff To say that sanchita (or karma accumulated in the past) and agami (or karma to be worked out in the future) do not adhere to the Jnani, (but) that prarabdha (or karma working out in the present) does remain, is merely a formal reply to the query put by others. Know that just as after the death of the husband no wife (of the three he had married) can remain without being a widow, even so after the destruction of the doership none of the three karmas can remain.

2.    The Forty on Existence Sadhu Arunachala (Major A.W.Chadwick)

To say for Jnanis there`s no Sanchita Or Agamya Karma but there`s still Prarabdha, is a sop for the unwise As none of his three wives remains a ‘wife’ When husband`s dead, no Karma will remain For him whose sense of doership is lost.

Revelation / K. Lakshmana Sarma To the dull-witted it is said “To actions of the future, and those that are gathered into the reserve, belonging to the Sage, become lost; but not so those that have begun to yield fruit”; (but) just as one wife out of many does not remain a sumangali at the death of the husband so all the three divisions of actions are lost when the doer -- (the ego) -- dies.

Synopsis / Grant Duff: Since the Jnani is not the doer, it is ludicrous to attribute prarabdha karma to him.

Collected from the books published by Ramanashramam. mP: 4-2--14