You can transcend all of karma.

This is why people like Ramana Maharshi always said that 
devotion, faith and self-inquiry are the same thing. 
You can't just have dry self-inquiry. 
You have to feel love.
You have to feel devotion. 
You have to put God first. 
Unless you put God first you're going to just have dry words, 
and the words will give you a sharp intellect. 
You will be able to recite all sorts of things, memorize books, hear lectures and remember them, 
yet you will never really awaken. 
This is why sometimes Advaita Vedanta 
can be dangerous to some people. 
Yet if they really read the books on Advaita Vedanta, 
they will understand that they have to develop a tremendous faith.

Think of some of the teachers that you know or heard about.
Nisargadatta, he always prayed.
He realized that he was consciousness.
He was self-realized, but at the same time he chanted,
he prayed, he had devotion.
It sounds like a contradiction.
For you may say, "If someone is self-realized and knows himself or herself
to be all there is, to whom do they pray?"
Try to remember that all spiritual life is a contradiction.
It's a contradiction because words cannot explain it.
Even when you are the Self, you can pray to the Self, which is you.

Ramana Maharshi always had chanting at the ashram,
prayers, devotional hymns.
These things are very important.
Many westerners, who profess to be atheists,
come to listen to lectures on Advaita Vedanta,
and yet nothing ever happens in their lives.
As long as you do not have devotion, faith, love, discrimination, dispassion,
it will be very difficult to awaken.

Therefore those of you who become bored with practicing self-inquiry
may become very devotional.
Surrender everything.
Give up your body, your thoughts, all the things that bind you,
whatever problems you may believe you have.
Surrender them to your favorite deity.
You are emptying yourself out as you do this.
Do a lot of it. 

Become humble. Have a tremendous humility.
If you can just do that you will become a favorite of God
and you'll not have to search any longer.
But of course the choice is always yours.

What are you chasing in life?
What are you going after?
What are the things that interest you? 

Whatever you put first in your life, that's where your heart is.
All of the things that have transpired in your life up to now, forget them.
Be aware all of the time that there are no mistakes.
There is nothing from the past that can interfere with your life
if you become devotional and have faith in God.
You'll be automatically protected from anything. 

And if you have enough faith,
you can totally remove all karmic aspects of your life.
You can transcend all of karma.
You can make life easier for yourself, if you have faith.

-Robert Adams -T.97 - Faith - 26th September, 1991