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 then the effect will be sweet. But if you have pushed them around it, will be bitter.
Questioner: If someone pushes me around and hurts me, the suffering I feel is the fruit of my karma?
Dadashri: True. These are all accounts. He will continue to do so as long as there is an account. The trouble he gives you depends on the extent of your account. Do these chili peppers give you problems?
Questioner: Yes they do.
Dadashri: They burn in the mouth. That is exactly how it all is. It is the pudgal (the body complex) that pushes you around and not the pure Self. The pure Self simply is aware that it is the body that is doing it. It is not the chilies that make us suffer, but that the fault is of the person who eats them, the sufferer. The peppers themselves are in their own natural state. The sufferer is in the unnatural state (I am Chandulal).
Questioner: What should we do if we push or shove someone and it hurts him?
Dadashri: You must do pratikraman (apology). You have to keep your clothes clean, don't you? You cannot keep them dirty. Ultimately your behavior should be such that it does not hurt anyone, even in the slightest. If someone gets hurt and you do pratikraman, you will progress towards liberation.
Can Anyone Take On Another's Misery?
Questioner: Two years ago a renowned saint was in a hospital and was suffering a terrible sickness. I asked him why all this was happening to him and he told me that it was because he had taken upon himself the miseries of many people. Can anybody
do such a thing?
Dadashri: No one can take someone else's misery. These are all excuses for him so that people would continue to worship him as a saint. It was all a result of his own causes. He was simply trying to promote himself. How can anyone who does not even have the strength to evacuate his bowels at will, take on someone else's misery?
Questioner: Even I don't believe that. Miseries cannot be taken away.
Dadashri: Of course not! He is simply making fools of people, so that he would be worshipped. It is impossible for anyone to take away anyone else's pain. I tell it to their faces that they are suffering their own miseries. What nonsense!
Questioner: But you can make someone miserable, can't
you?
Dadashri: One cannot take anyone else's misery. Whatever misery people give you is your own effect. The ability to give and the ability to receive are both effects. Effect means that nobody does it: It just happens!
Miseries Due To Demerit Karma Questioner: When a person dies from some kind of disease, people say it is because of bad karma from his past life. Is that true?
Dadashri: Yes, with bad karma you get disease and if there is no bad karma there is no disease. Have you ever come across a person with a disease?
Questioner: My mother died of cancer about two months ago.