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because the rule is that upon maturation, the karma has to bear its fruit, or else so many karmas will stay pending!
How Is a Karmic Account Paid Off?
Questioner: If we have created enmity (veyr) towards someone, then do we have to face him in another life to settle it?
Dadashri: No, it is not like that. A score is not settled in that way. When enmity is created, attachment-abhorrence (raag-dwesh) is involved. If you had created enmity with your son in the past life, wouldn't you wonder about which lifetime it would be settled? How will you come together again like this? Your son may even come as a cat in this life. If you offer it milk, it will scratch you on your face. That is how it all is! This is how your enmity gets settled. The rule of the maturation time for karma, is that the karmic account (hisaab) is paid off quickly.
When I ask you, have you done anything for moksha in your countless past lives? It means, what is the balance sheet of all your past lives? Isn't it that artadhyan and raudradhyan have continued to carry on?
Whatever you have to experience and suffer, is itself the fruits of your past karma, and nothing else. You cannot see karma. You can see the 'fruit (effect) of karma. When someone slaps you or you have a stomachache or headache or paralysis, etc., is all referred to as karma, but it is not that at all. Some attribute these afflictions to this body (pudgal) and its actions. But in truth, it is not that. The body (deha) is not kusangi (a negative influence; wrong company). If the understanding veered in this direction, it would help them along their way to moksha. This is just a glitch in one's understanding.
The belief that 'I am Chandubhai' and everything done under this belief, is the cause of the worldly life (sansar).
Questioner: Often, when people burn themselves or fall,
