Re: Karma - Little complicated.
namaste AmIHindu.
Thank you for the link. This passage in the story is telling:
"Indradyumna was pleased to hear what the tortoise had to say. So were the gods who welcomed him back. As Indradyumna rose to heaven, the irony did not escape him: he was remembered on earth for a lake that was unconsciously created, and not for the cows that were consciously given. He benefited not from things he did, but from the impact of things he did."
It seems that any good karma we earn by conscious good deeds is tinged with our mamatA--pride/egotism/self-interest, however minute the trace is. The impact of our deeds and any good karma they might create unconscious to us, is free from this trace of ego, and thus benefits us more.
This might also apply to bad karma. For example, if we consciously kill an ant, the bad karma acquired would be much more than any bad karma that might attach if we unconsciously kill an ant when we happen to tread on it without knowing about what we did then or later.
रत्नाकरधौतपदां हिमालयकिरीटिनीम् ।
ब्रह्मराजर्षिररत्नाढ्यां वन्दे भारतमातरम् ॥
To her whose feet are washed by the ocean, who wears the Himalayas as her crown, and is adorned with the gems of rishis and kings, to Mother India, do I bow down in respect.
--viShNu purANam
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