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The Science of Karma
TRI MANTRA
Namo Arihantanam
Namo Siddhanam Namo Aayariyanam
Namo Uvazzayanam Namo Lo Ye Savva Saahunam
Eso Pancha Namukkaro
Savva Pavappanashano Mangalanam Cha Savvesim
Padhamam Havai Mangalam Aum Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya
Aum Namah Shivaaya
Does One Act According To One's Free Will Or Does It
Just Happen? Dadashri: Do you ever find that you are forced to do something against your wishes? Does that happen or not?
Questioner: Yes, that does happen.
Dadashri: What is the reason for that? You do not wish to and yet you have to. It is the effect of karma done in your past life.
People believe this effect to be the cause. They do not understand the previous life's effect at all. If anything done in this life were a cause, then why would you do something against your will? Furthermore, why would you say, 'I did it', when you did not want to do it in the first place? Why do people say 'you did it also? People call all visible actions to be the same as doing the karma. They will say 'I did a good deed today and so created a good karma today'. Whereas the Gnani Purush knows that all visible acts of this life are an effect.
Who Sent You To This Earth?
Jai Sat Chit Anand.
Questioner: Are we born of our own will or are we sent here?
Dadashri: No one sends you here. It is your karma that takes you to places where your rebirth takes place immediately. If your karmas are good, you will be born in a good place and if
