This chain is beginningless; it is a beginningless event of cause and effect that is false (mithyā). Therefore, it is parallel to anādi avidya (beginningless ignorance).

Good news: The chain in which the ignorant person revolves daily is not endless. It has seemingly chained us. Correct and complete self-knowledge (ātma-jñāna) shows us that we have never been chained.

The wise, knowing, “sees” (knows) that the entire cycle is mithyā. Mithyā means impermanent and changeable, and specifically, completely dependent as the self (ātman), the sole ground and reality of the whirlpool of apparent existence.

Moreover, the wise know that the sequence of an inclination, a compelling feeling (desire), the impulse to action, and the action itself, and the trace it leaves behind in the causal consciousness (subconscious), is only apparent. Sequence is apparent. I, consciousness, always stand completely still. There is no movement, no sequence, no cause and effect.

The wise person is no longer cognitively caught in these loops and no longer creates new karma (āgāmi karma, literally: karma that comes, āgām goes), but completely and automatically serves out the karma that has begun (prārabdha karma) for this one apparent life.