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is turned, the karmas become quiet, and that goes into pleasure experiencing karma (shata vedaniya karma).
Questioner: Is it the karmas that have been bound to
us?
Dadashri: When the belief changes, the karmas that are bound, all begin to break free. As the belief changes, all the karmas start breaking free. Otherwise, if the belief does not change, the karmas do not break free. All this is nothing but wrong beliefs. You yourself are the Absolute Soul (Parmatma), but just look at what has happened!
Destruction of Belief With Belief
Questioner: Now when we replace the wrong belief with the right belief, would we not also benefit from the right belief? But is that not a belief as well? And as long as a belief exists, will it not yield karma, as its fruit?
Dadashri: But there is no belief in the right whatsoever. It is to destroy the wrong belief; that the right belief exists. Otherwise you would not be able to destroy the wrong belief! And when one destroys the wrong belief with the right belief, then on his own, with the right belief, he himself destroys his own self (ignorant part). Thereafter, he no longer has anything else to destroy! It is with this course of action that all this has been arranged. It is this way, or else there would be no end to its growth. This is an enlightened vision (samyak darshan), and it is the right belief, so it dissolves on its own. The right belief is dependent on the Self (swa-satta) and wrong belief is dependent on other external things (par-satta). The Principle of Self-Realization through an
Independent Vision The Gnani Purush will make you aware that you have touched the world. Otherwise there is not a single thing that can touch you. Someone may ask, “Do I not need anything?' And
