72.
One who has realized the
knowledge ‘I am’, which
means transcending
it
as well, for him there is
no birth or death nor any
karma.
This
is something very
important to understand
- that is, the verbal
understanding of the
knowledge
‘I am’ is altogether
different from its
actual realization.
There are many who will
verbally or
theoretically understand
the ‘I am’, yet the
rarest
of
the rare will realize
it.
Why
so?
Because realizing it
means transcending it as
well, the ‘realized one’
is no longer an
individual,
that’s why the Guru is
not an individual.
The
‘realized one’ knows
that ‘I am unborn’, so
there is no question of
birth or death for him.
How can any Karma,
Karmic residue or
transmigration, as
understood in Hindu
doctrine,
be applicable to the
unborn?
It’s the end of it all!