"Sarvadharman parithyajya...." is the Law of Grace. Compare and contrast this with the Law of Karma.
Law of Grace apparently overrides, supercedes, annuls the consequences, repurcussions of karma.
'Sarvadharman parityajya..." interprets "abandon all dharmas..". Sounds self-contradictory, conflicting, apparently merits disputing, debating.
Chinmayananda, at the end of a long lecture on this verse, concludes by saying, 'shedding your ego'.
The abrahamic faith puts it in a different verbatim, 'deny yourself...'.
In my humble opinion, seeking the truth, the brahman, does not begin from us. The journey is not ours but of His, of the brahman, of the one and only true almighty, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient one.
It is not 'I' who seeks the Truth. It is He who is Truth Himself seeking me. It is not 'I' who finds the Truth. It is He who is Truth Himself finding me, the lost soul. I am lost and mired in this world, in this illusion, in the flesh. It is He who is Truth Himself who searches for me and finds me. It is all about Him and not about me. It is He who is Truth Himself who sets me free from the untruth, from darkness, from bondage and leads me to the Truth, to the True Light, to freedom from bondage.
It is not some 'ism' or 'ity' that sets me free. 'ism's and 'ity's only create war and division. Pushes men only to darkness, pride, arrogance, conceit, selfishness. They have miserably failed. They have no vision or mission towards eternity. They are confined. None of them are Universal.
It is not my karma. It is all His Grace. All credit goes only to Him.
I don't deserve His Grace yet He is gracious upon me. That is Grace.
My karma, my righteousness is of nil value before His Grace.
In all circumstance thank Him. Keep doing good karma and leave the reward to Him. He knows how to reward, when to reward, whom to reward etc.
