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Questioner: And after suffering there, does he return to the human life-form?
Dadashri: Yes, he returns to the human life-form. Even if he goes into the celestial life he has to return to the human life. One only has the right to venture into the realms of other life-forms from the human life-form. In the human life-form, there is both charging' and 'discharging' of karma, whilst in other life-forms, there is only 'discharge' of karma. Only human life is a "test examination". Those who fail, will go to a lower life-form or to some infernal realm. Those who pass, will remain as humans, and if they have an 'exceptional grade', they will go on to life as a celestial being. The fifth gati (realm or life-form) is moksha which is only attained by way of the human life-form.
Questioner: Does one have to make a stop in the human life-form, on the way from one lower life-form to another lower life-form?
Dadashri: No, from one lower life-form to another lower life-form, is eight lifetimes at the most and no more. One then returns to the human life-form.
Questioner: You also find the same sort of human understanding in the animal life-form, so why do animals not bind karma?
Dadashri: Animals have 'limited' understanding and humans have ‘unlimited' understanding. Animals even have limited 'minds'. Therefore, they are unable to bind karma.
Karma - A Balance of Many Lifetimes
Questioner: Are my present karmas, from my countless past lives?
Dadashri: Each life is in the form of a 'balance sheet' of endless previous lives. It is not the sum of all previous lives,
