Acharya Prashant addresses the common misconception that karma is a boomerang that returns results in the future. He argues that postponing the fruits of action to an uncertain future date diminishes the immediate significance of one's state of being. Instead, he emphasizes that the primary focus of wisdom and Vedanta is not the action itself, but the actor or the 'I'. The actor precedes the action, and therefore, the state of the actor is the immediate reward or punishment. If an individual is in a state of suffering or conditioning, that internal state is already a punishment, making future consequences secondary.
