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yathaidhāṃsi samiddho.agnirbhasmasātkurute.arjuna . jñānāgniḥ sarvakarmāṇi bhasmasātkurute tathā
噢，阿周那，正如熊熊烈火将木柴化为灰烬，同样，知识之火将所有行动（Karma）化为灰烬。
O Arjuna, as a blazing fire reduces pieces of wood to ashes, similarly the fire of Knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.
正如烤过的种子无法发芽，同样，被知识之火焚烧的行动也无法结出果实，即无法再次将人带到这个世界来享受其行动的果报。这就是将行动化为灰烬。当行动被知识之火焚烧时，它们便失去了效力。当自我（Atman）的知识显现时，所有行动及其结果都会被那知识之火焚烧，就像燃料被火焚烧一样。当没有“我做此事”的行动者心态时，当没有对果报的欲望时，行动就根本不是行动了，它已失去其效力。知识之火可以焚烧所有行动，除了宿业（Prarabdha Karma），即已导致此身体存在并已开始结出果实或产生效应的过去行动的结果。根据一些哲学家的观点，即使是宿业也会被知识之火摧毁。室利·商羯罗（Sri Sankara）在他的《亲证奥义书》（Aparokshanubhuti）中说：“在‘当至高者被了悟时，他的行动被摧毁’这段话中，吠陀明确使用了复数形式的‘行动’（Karmas），以表示即使是宿业也被摧毁。”有三种业（Karma），即过去行动的反应或结果：（1）宿业（Prarabdha），指导致今生诞生的那部分过去行动；（2）积业（Sanchita），指将导致未来诞生的剩余过去行动——累积行动的储存库；（3）新业（Agami或Kriyamana），指今生正在进行的行动。如果自我知识只摧毁积业和新业，而不摧毁宿业，那么梵语语法中就应该使用双数而不是复数。
Just as the sees that are roasted cannot germinate? so also the actions that are burnt by the fire of knowledge cannot bear fruits? i.e.? cannot bring man to this world again for the enjoyment of the fruits of his actions. This is reducing actions to ashes. The actions lose their potency as they are burnt by the fire of knowledge. When the knowledge of the Self dawns? all actions with their results are burnt by the fire of that knowledge just as fuel is burnt by the fire. When there is no agencymentality (the idea I do this)? when there is no desire for the fruits? action is no action at all. It has lost its potency. The fire of knowledge can burn all actions except the Prarabdha Karma? or the result of the past action which has brought this body into existence and which has thus already begun to bear fruits or produce effects.According to some philosophers even the Prarabdha Karma is destroyed by the fire of knowledge. Sri Sankara says in his AparokshanubhutiIn the passage his actions are destroyed when the Supreme is realised the Veda expressly speaks of actions (Karmas) in the plural? in order to signify the destruction of even the Prarabdha.There are three kinds of Karmas or reaction to or fructification of past actions (1) Prarabdha? so much of the past actions as has given rise to the present birth? (2) Sanchita? the balance of the past actions that will give rise to future births -- the storehouse of accumulated actions? and (3) Agami or Kriyamana? acts being done in the present life. If by the knowledge of the Self only the Sanchita and Agami were destroyed and not Prarabdha? the dual number would have been used and not the plural. (Sanskrit grammar has singular? dual and plural numbers). (Cf.IV.1019)