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“As for future bondages, they arise from acts done without anyone knowing they are sinful. How can this be discovered? A seeker should recognize it as a future bondage when some action presents itself which makes him feel that he wishes to do it because the doing of it is an act of human kindness and sympathy; and so he is tempted into doing it. He does not realise that the act will be the cause of future bondage. If he thinks that, by being a non-doer (akarta) and worldly-detached (asanga), the fulfilment of the desire will not affect him and he can therefore do the act, he will become bound all the same and will be freed from the bondage only after several more births. That future bondages result in re-births is authoritatively stated in the Scriptures (srutis and smritis). Vasudeva, for instance, had one more birth, Bharata had two more, and others many more."

(Bhagavan in 'Letters from Sri Ramanasramam' 148; pictures are from 'Lessons of King Bharat', http://www.agt-gems.com/mysticarticles/bharata.html.)