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: Yes. You must take everything positively. And you can only see the positive in any situation if you have Gnan. If not, the intellect (buddhi), which always looks at the negative, will takeover. The whole world suffers. Everyone thrashes around like fish out of water. How can you call this life? There is a need to understand the art of living. Not everyone achieves liberation, but one should at least know the art of living
If I were to receive news about the death of a close friend, right away I would analyze this through Gnan the reasons for this news. And then there is no need for me to suffer any discord. Ignorance however, will bring on discord and despair.
Therefore, discord means ignorance. All discord arises out of ignorance. When ignorance goes, discord disappears.
One should know what everything is all about. Ordinarily, if a child breaks a clay pot, nobody says anything, but when a china cup is broken, everyone gets upset. Why? It is because the clay pot had no value to it. In other words we only create problems when something is valuable to us. We do not create any problems where things do not have any value. Both of the vessels break on account of unfolding of effect karma. Yet we care less for the devalued clay pot.
When a person suffers a loss of two thousand rupees, he suffers mental anguish, while another person who suffers the same loss, will recognize that it happened because of his effect karma. This sort of understanding, will bring everything to a close, otherwise there will be discord. There is no discord in the karmas from previous life. Discord is the fruit of today's ignorance.
Why Blame The Postman For The Letter With Bad News?
The misery in this world today is because of lack of understanding. It is self-created because of the lack of vision. When one is burnt by fire, one would say that it was not done deliberately but by mistake. Similarly all misery is based on mistakes. All these miseries are the result of our mistakes. Once the mistakes are gone, the misery will be over.
Questioner: Is that why we have to suffer the misery, because of our karmas?
Dadashri: They are all karma that we had created, which is why the mistake is our own. No one else is at fault. Others are only 'instruments'. The misery is all yours, but it comes your way through your instruments'. Would you hit the postman (instrument) if he were to bring you the telegram of your father's death?
Accounts Of Previous Lives
Some people remain unperturbed even if their warehouse burns down and they do not have any insurance. They would appear tranquil both on the outside and inside, while some display panic and fear inside and out. That is all ignorance and lack of understanding. The warehouse was destined to burn. Nothing new is happening. No matter how much you punish yourself, nothing would have changed the outcome.
Questioner: Should we calmly accept the outcome of anything?
Questioner: Do we encounter our family members and relatives because of our connections with them in our previous life?
Dadashri: True. There is nothing without connections. They are all accounts. Either we have pushed them around or they have pushed us around. If you have obliged them in the past,