Acharya Prashant addresses a question about whether it is necessary to receive the fruit of one's actions, referencing a dialogue involving Maharshi Ramana. He explains that for a fruit to be received, there must be someone to receive it. The fruit is received by the one who considers the actions to be their own. When Shankaracharya says that through understanding (Bodh), all three types of karma are dissolved, he means that the one who could be punished or rewarded is no longer there. The one who could have received the punishment is gone, and the one who would have received the fruit is also gone. Acharya Prashant further clarifies that the fruit of action is not merely received; it is accepted or grasped. He states that the fruit of action is demanded. The receptivity must end for the fruit of action to end. The mind is the one that accepts, which is why the fruit of the action is received. We are attached to the action, and for us, the action is only a means to produce a fruit. Therefore, we are attached to the fruit of the action. We are ready and waiting for it. He explains that in nature (Prakriti), the fruit is constantly present, and an account is being kept, much like the mythological Chitragupta who records everything. Existence itself is Chitragupta, a long chain of cause and effect. As long as you are a part of nature and identify with it, you will have to bear what has happened. Nature itself acts and nature itself experiences. When you are established where there is neither doing nor experiencing, you are free from accepting. Then, actions continue to happen, and those who accept the actions continue to do so, but you do not accept them. This is immortality. When the body swells, you do not swell, and when the body burns, you do not burn.