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returns to order (kram) again. So after Self-realization, it becomes orderly (kramvaar) again. As long as you have human birth, if you do not attain Self-realization, you will be wandering around, and all rule or order (kram-bram) will just disappear. However, if this were not to occur in the middle of human life, then God would say that everything is dependent upon niyati, a fixed precise track towards liberation.
It Is One's Nature to Ascend Higher, but When?
Questioner: The fundamental nature of the Atma is to rise upwards (urdhvagami). They say that we have received this human body, on account of this nature. Now, the results of some of the karmas done in the human life, sends one to the plant and animal realm of existence (Tiryancha gati). And after having spent time in the Tiryancha gati, one returns to the human body, so what is the law that governs this?
Dadashri: The fact is, that when one binds karma here, it means that the paudgalik (pertaining to the non-Self complex) weight increases, and when the weight of the pudgal (the nonSelf complex) increases, it descends to lower realms of existence (gati). Then, when the pudgal becomes expended in the lower life-form, it means that the load of the non-Self complex has lessened, and so he comes back to human life!
Once he is back as a human being, if his human intent of human life (dharma) breaks, and the intent of celestial life (deva dharma) arises in him, he becomes lighter and ascends to the celestial realm (deva gati). When the load increases, one descends, to where there are seven abysses; seven lower regions (lokas) into which he sinks. And if one becomes lighter, one ascends upwards, all the way to where there are six locations (lokas). That is how the universe comprises the fourteen locations!
The non-Self complex (pudgal) is darkness, and the Atma
