When the soul goes from one body to another where is the karma stored?

From Nandasuta Govinda Pr:

When a soul leaves the body it is understood to be surrounded by mind/intelligence and ego. The question is where does the present karma and past reside and how it is taken into account during the next birth. It is said one is born only with prarabda karma and the sancintya karma is kept in account.

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question from Nandasut Govind Prabhu when a soul leaves the body it is understood to be surrounded by mind intelligence and ego the question is where does the present karma and past karma reside and how is it taken into account during the next birth it is said that one is born only with the prarabdha karma and the sanchita karma is kept in account answer by the word karma we can either refer to the actions or the reactions so here the idea is that where are the karmic reactions for what we have done in this life stored when the soul goes to the next life the karmic reactions are of two types one is that every action that we do it produces a psychological reaction in terms of increasing our inclination for that kind of action every time a drunkard drinks the inclination to drink becomes stronger and stronger till it becomes an addiction so that is one level of reaction and the other kind of reaction is the external event that is going to happen to us the suffering that is going to come upon us as a suffering or the good depending on the kind of karma that we have done so these two are two distinct so we could call them the psychological and the physical although it is not such a simple differentiation because even the karmic reaction eventually can come in the form of something that agitates us psychologically but let us to keep things simple right now let us differentiate in two ways psychological and physical reactions so physical reactions can be somebody may meet an accident or get a disease or get legal complications now the psychological inclinations that result from our past karma are stored in our own in our own subtle body so the subtle body actually consists of not just mind, intelligence and ego but also the chitta the consciousness actually the original consciousness soul is called chitta sat-chit-ananda and the consciousness of the soul that is rooted to the material world through the body subtle and gross is called as chitta so actually in this subtle body which goes with the soul to the next body those inclinations are stored this is in this life also the reservoir of desires is the mind so the mind is going to the next body and similarly the desires are stored there in that body also in the mind and the mind continues from this body to the next body that’s why different people are born with different inclinations some people are born kleptomaniacs kleptomaniacs means people who have a very strong inclination to steal there was a king of England who when people would come to visit him and they he would steal their footwear he was a king and he had absolutely no need to do that but he was a kleptomaniac because that was that was the inclination that he had got from his previous life now regarding the karmic reactions that are going to come upon us where are they stored actually there is a whole system involving the devatas especially Yamaraj and his assistant Chitragupta and ultimately the super soul who supervises the whole thing so normally speaking when a soul is sinful and has to be judged the soul goes between this life and next life to Yamaraj’s court where Chitragupta reports to Yamaraj and then Yamaraj assesses and decides the reactions and the way they are going to come so the karmic record is stored with Chitragupta now of course Chitragupta and Yamaraj are agents of the super soul and the super soul also remembers everything so the super soul is there in our heart and when we talk about the karmic reactions what exactly do we mean by the storage of the karmic reactions we are talking we may sometimes simplistically use some sort of pontification okay this person has done this much bad karma so this has a count of 10 this has a count of 25 and then there is a total of 35 counts which has to be given back to a person in terms of some sufferings okay this suffering means 5 counts this suffering means 20 counts this suffering means 10 counts so we may think of karma in terms of quantified units but karma is not as simple as that it’s much more complicated but the broad principle is that the super soul and the demigod in charge of giving punishments that is Yamaraj and Chitragupta they store the records now Yamaraj is normally looking after this he oversees the sinful people so then what about the people who are no longer who are not directly so sinful so Yamaraj doesn’t have jurisdiction over them directly he is of course a part of the whole system of cosmic governance under the supreme lord and that system of governance does control all reactions good and bad so in the case of our pious reactions the primary or the ultimate not the primary the ultimate store of the all the records is with the super soul the super soul is situated detached but detached doesn’t mean that he is indifferent or not inactive detached just means that he is not emotionally involved directly he acts like a judge judge is engaged and the judge is assessing the extent of the crime and deciding the extent of the punishment the judge is not emotionally involved so the whole system of cosmic government is there presided by the super soul which arranges for the karmic reactions to come upon us now what do we mean when we say that we begin with the prarabdha karma the prarabdha beginning with the prarabdha karma means the kind of body that we get that is the first installment of our karma some of us may have a tall or a short body good looking or not so good looking body maybe born in a wealthy or poor family so life is if we consider to be like a marathon race then it is a race which seems to be inequitably distributed some people different people have different starting points in the race of life and the different starting point is determined by our different past karmas so in that sense the prarabdha karma gives us the body that we start off with it’s like the starting vehicle or the starting point whichever way you want to look at it two different metaphors for understanding this and the remaining are ultimately stored with the super soul and they give us and he arranges through the appropriate agents at the appropriate times for those reactions to come upon us of course the super soul doesn’t necessarily have to be directly involved the super soul supervises and he allocates and as different reactions come in different ways there are different devatas that may be involved just as we say that a particular karmic reaction is coming through the medium of Saturn and Saturn is ultimately governed by the super soul by the Lord so that way the Lord is the ultimate judge and the ultimate allocator of the sentence but he is not the executor of the sentence the executors will be different depending on the specific kind of karmic reaction that is to