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 Science of Karma
Dadashri: The body has nothing to do with it. It is all the doing of the ego.
Of This Life: In This Life?
Questioner: Do we suffer the consequences of all these karma in just this lifetime or will we have to suffer them in the next lifetime as well?
Dadashri: The karma from previous life, were in the form of a plan, as though designed on a piece of paper. Now when it materializes and comes into fruition, it is called prarabdh (fate). It may take so many years for it to mature, perhaps fifty, seventyfive, even a hundred years.
karma, even at this very moment. While you are engaged here, asking these questions, you are binding punya karmas. (good karma)
Who Is The Doer And Who Is The Sufferer?
Questioner: Dada. We have to suffer the consequences of karmas from our past life, in our current life. But the karmas that the body in our previous life suffered would have been extinguished with that body in the funeral pyre. When the Soul is completely pure (nirvikaar) and takes on a new body, why does the new body have to endure the karma of the previous body?
Dadashri: The previous body suffered the consequences of its own karma.
Questioner: So?
Dadashri: These karma were created in the mind. They are subtle karma. These karma are the causes, which create the causal body.
Questioner: That is all fine, but did that body not have bhaavs (inner intent)?
Dadashri: It is not the body that does the bhaavs. Questioner: Then?
Dadashri: The physical body has suffered the fruits of its action. It experienced suffering when it received two slaps, but that which has already been in the planning, is coming into visible action now. The slaps received is an effect. The cause for this effect was planned in the past life.
Questioner: Yes, but who did the planning? Was it not the previous body that did the planning?
So karma that were bound in the previous life, may take numerous years before they come into fruition. People in general think that karma are being bound when they are actually in the process of coming into fruition or discharging.
If you slap someone, people would say that you have bound a karma. If you were to ask them what karma you bound, they will tell you that it was the karma from the act of slapping. Now, there is no doubt that the person you slapped is going to react. He may not react straight away, but later on when he gets the chance, he will take his revenge. People will then say you finally received payment of your karma for slapping him. That is called suffering the consequences here and now. But you have to agree with what they say and tell them that they are correct. But they will not be able to tell you the reason behind why the other person received the slap. They will not be able to find the reason either. They will insist that you are the one who did it, whereas it is the fruition of one's karma that makes a person do things. It is the effect of previously created cause that makes you do things.