KARMAS STILL PLAY OUT

Despite our awakening into Brahman, which is the purpose of this life, our past karmas, good and bad, continue to play out.  Prabhavananda gives the example of a person who takes his gun and goes out hunting, only to have compassion and abandon the hunt.  This, though, does not erase all the times he stayed on the hunt and took all those shots.  This is why an illumined, saintly person may still know misery in his life.  It is consoling for him to know, however, that since his awakening he is generating no more karmas.