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yathaidhāṃsi samiddho.agnirbhasmasātkurute.arjuna . jñānāgniḥ sarvakarmāṇi bhasmasātkurute tathā
喔，阿周那，正如熊熊烈火將木柴燒成灰燼，同樣地，智慧之火也將所有行動（羯磨）燒成灰燼。
O Arjuna, as a blazing fire reduces pieces of wood to ashes, similarly the fire of Knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.
正如烤過的種子無法發芽，同樣地，被智慧之火燒盡的行動（羯磨）也無法結出果實，即無法再次將人帶到此世享受其行動的果報。這就是將行動燒成灰燼。當行動被智慧之火燒盡時，它們便失去了效力。當自我知識顯現時，所有行動及其結果都會被那智慧之火燒盡，就像燃料被火燒盡一樣。當沒有「我做此事」的行為者心態，當沒有對果報的慾望時，行動就根本不是行動了。它已經失去了效力。智慧之火可以燒盡所有行動，除了普拉拉布達羯磨（Prarabdha Karma），即已導致此身體存在並已開始結果或產生效應的過去行動的結果。根據一些哲學家的說法，即使是普拉拉布達羯磨也會被智慧之火摧毀。斯里·商羯羅（Sri Sankara）在他的《阿帕羅克沙阿努布提》（Aparokshanubhuti）中說：「在『當至高者被證悟時，他的行動被摧毀』這段經文中，吠陀明確地使用了複數形式的『行動』（Karmas），以表示甚至普拉拉布達羯磨也被摧毀。」有三種羯磨或對過去行動的反應/結果：(1) 普拉拉布達（Prarabdha），指導致今生誕生的那部分過去行動；(2) 桑奇塔（Sanchita），指將導致未來誕生的過去行動的餘額——累積行動的儲藏庫；(3) 阿伽彌（Agami）或克里亞瑪那（Kriyamana），指今生正在進行的行動。如果自我知識只摧毀桑奇塔和阿伽彌，而不摧毀普拉拉布達，那麼經文就會使用雙數形式，而不是複數形式。
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)