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Remember the Deed!  \nPrashantAdvait Foundation Follow Penguin Copyright  \nAbout the Book  \nThis book was spoken first and written later.  \nAs a Vedanta philosopher and teacher, Acharya Prashant has been interacting with diverse audiences for over a decade. Though the questioners come from varying backgrounds, each of these interactions is usually in the form of a question that the teacher responds to. The length of each such interaction varies from ten minutes to as much as an hour. Every chapter of this book is essentially based on one such interaction. This means that each chapter, though coming from a single centre, exhibits the response of the speaker to very different people and their life-queries. The questioners are spaced apart across years, continents, genders, and everything else that makes a human being diverse from the other. This means that the readers get an enriching kaleidoscopic perspective as they go through the range of human conditions, confusions and questions – all related to the question of one’s identity, which, as we shall learn in the book, is central to the question of the how to take the right action.  \nKarma is a word as common in the spiritual lexicon as in the popular parlance. However, its real meaning and implications stand obfuscated and distorted by centuries of misplaced expositions and self-appeasing translations. While commoners console themselves with the pedestrian notions attached to this word, it remains a disquieting enigma to those who refuse to resort to easy versions of the truth. This book is for the latter.  \nMoment by moment, life is synonymous with action. If to live rightly is to act rightly, then what is the right action? This has tormented human consciousness since ages.  \nThe scriptures have tried to classically answer this question, but scriptures are infamous for being cryptic. They do not stoop to edify us with elaborations and examples","cbCaisWcO40Y3K3Z","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisWcO40Y3K3Z","pdf",1940177,253,"English","# Contents\n## Part I: How to Choose the Right Action?\n## Part II: Will the Right Action Give the Right Result?\n## Part III: Action That Reforms the Actor\n## Part IV: What Do the Scriptures Say?","[{\"question\":\"What does the book suggest about the common meaning of karma?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that the real meaning of karma has been distorted by centuries of misplaced expositions and self-appeasing translations. 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