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(apparent doer; instrumental) efforts. You simply continue making those efforts.
Questioner: Is this just the naimitik karma of prarabdha (effect)?
Dadashri: It happens because of prarabdha. It only happens through the inspiration of prarabdha.
Questioner: What is prarabdha?
Dadashri: Prarabdha (effect of karma) means the bhaavkarma ('cause') was created in the past life. That cause (bhaavkarma) gets fed into this "computer' and it is issued into the universe where it encounters Nature. Then, along with all the other natural causes that come together, we receive it here as a visible effect of that. It is ‘Vyavasthit shakti' that brings the ‘effect here. Then you have to get up when it makes you get up, and walk the way it makes you walk. Even the good and bad thoughts arise as a consequence of this very process. This is a very subtle phenomenon.
Questioner: Is the current prarabdha, the fruit of the 'cause’ (bhaav) from our previous life?
Dadashri: Yes. It is the fruit of the 'cause’ (bhaav) from the previous life. And the new “causes' (bhaavs) that occur today, are the 'causes' for the next life.
Questioner: Do these new intents (bhaavs) that arise today not give fruit here in this very lifetime?
Dadashri: No, they will not give fruition here. New bhaavs are 'causes', the effects of which will be experienced in the next life. And so, the cycle of cause and effect, effect and cause, continues for endless lifetimes. Unless the Gnani Purush stops the 'causes', and puts an end to one's 'doership’ of the cause karma (bhaavkarma), this cycle of cause and effect will go on and on...
