Science of Karma

SR No.: 007556
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 49
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Akram Vigyan
File Size: 11 KB

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The Science of Karma
The Mystery of Cause and Effect
Do you understand effect now? That which is happening is effect. When you submitted your examination paper (past life), it was the cause. You do not have to worry about the effect, the result, which is inevitable once the exam is given. The result is the effect. The whole world is preoccupied with the effect, and strives to change it, when really they should be concerned about the cause.
Do you understand this science? Science is based on principles. It is irrefutable. If you were to earn two million in your business, would that be a cause or an effect?
Questioner: It is a cause.
Dadashri: Explain to me how it can be a cause. Does it happen according to your will?
Questioner: When you do business, whatever is going to happen will happen. That would be effect. But one has to create the causes in order to do the business, does one not? Only then will he be able to the business, right?
Dadashri: No. Cause means nothing of the outside world is necessary. You can only do the business if your health is good; you have a sound mind and you have the necessary capital. That which is dependent on all these things is an effect. But when a man stays up worrying in the night, he is creating a cause; there is nothing else necessary in that. Causes are independent.
Questioner: Is the business we conduct an effect, then?
Dadashri: I call it an effect. Business is an effect. Do you have to do anything for the result of an examination? You have to do something when you take the exam, which is considered a cause. But do you have to do anything for the result?
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Questioner: No.
Dadashri: Similarly even here, you do not have to do anything. Everything happens on its own accord. Your body is used in the process and things just happen. In causes, however, one has to do something. The belief of doer ship, 'I did it', is the cause. The suffering of the effect, I am suffering', is also the cause. Everything else is effect.
Questioner: The inner intent are all causes.
Dadashri: Yes, cause requires no one's help. When you cook a wonderful meal, it is all an effect, but in the process if from within you feel (inner intent) 'I am a great cook. I made a wonderful meal', it is this intent that is the cause.. As long as you do not have this inner intent, it is all effect. All that you hear or see is effect. Causes cannot be seen.
Questioner: So effect is everything that one experiences through these five senses?
Dadashri: Yes. All that is an effect. Your whole life is an effect. Bhaav is the inner intent in life. This is the cause. There is a doer of this bhaav. It is called the ego (I am Chandulal, and this is happening to me, I am suffering). Whatever bhaavs occur in your life, if you are the 'doer' of those bhaavs, then they are all 'causes'. That is what everyone in this world does.
Once the karma ceases to bind, that is the end. Are you able to understand this much? Do you think that you can stop binding karma? Have you ever seen that happen? When you become involved in good things, you bind good karma. The bad things are always there. You can never get rid of karma. Once you become aware of who you are and what makes all this happen, you will stop binding karma, forever.