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Dadashri: Yes. That happens. Right now the event may be of shubha (good) karma, but one may be binding bad karma from within.
Overt Karma: Subtle Karma Questioner: How can we tell whether a karma is old (discharging, effect) or new (charging, cause)?
Dadashri: Nobody can see whether a karma has been created (charged) or not. Only the Lord, the One with absolute knowledge (kevalgnan), can know this. There is not the slightest trace of new karma in what you see in the world today. As long as you stay as the Knower-Seer (Gnata-Drashta) of the unfolding karma, you will not create a new karma. But if you become tanmayakar (ʻI am Chandubhai, I am doing this'), then you will bind new karma. It is only after You become Atmagnani (knower of the Atma), that you stop binding karma.
All the upchar (remedies-spiritual/religious) and medicines that are around in this Kaliyug (the current era of the time cycle characterized by lack of unity in mind, speech and body) are wrong. If a man does charitable work, is pious in his religion, donates money to temples, he does all that throughout his day, he is regarded by people as a ‘religious' man. But within him, the man conceals intentions like, 'How do I amass more?' And ‘How can I find gratification?' His real desire is to take from others, what is not rightfully his. In this Kaliyug (the current era of the time cycle), people generally desire to take things that are not rightfully theirs. They are always ready to enjoy something they have no right to. He may, on the outside, be displaying his generosity by acting charitably and flaunting his “religious' nature with visible austerities, but internally he is harboring thoughts of illicit money and sex. The Lord does not grant such a man a single penny's worth of credit. Why is that? It is because these are all sthool (perceptible; overt) karma. All of which you see
