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During. Before and After Death
During, Before and After Death
us that a human will take birth into an animal form.
Dadashri: Have you encountered anyone who appears to be barking like a dog when he speaks? People will say that he is always barking. He has carried forward these traits from his previous life as a dog. Some even behave like monkeys, so they have been monkeys before. Some sit quiet as a cat, ready to pounce at the slightest opportunity. One can determine where a person has come from or where he is headed, based on his characteristic traits. Even so it is not a permanent thing.
People of the current time cycle of Kaliyug do not know how to sin and yet that is all they do. So what will the fruit of their deeds be? At the most, they will spend fifty to a hundred years in the animal form. They will not spend thousands of years there before they come back as humans. Many even return after spending just five years in the animal form. So do not consider their actions as a crime, because these poor people immediately return back into the human form. It is because their sins are not so grave.
The Law of Growth and Destruction Questioner: The human population has continued to increase, does that mean that the population of the animals is decreasing?
Dadashri: Yes, that is true. The number of souls remains the same, but they continue to convert. Sometimes as the human population increases, the animal population is reduced and vice versa. This process of conversion continues.
Why do Children Suffer? Questioner: Why do innocent children have to suffer physical ailments?
Dadashri: A child suffers the consequences of the effects of his own karmas and the mother suffers through witnessing it. The main karma belongs to the child and because the mother had played a role in supporting that karma, she too has to suffer. Karmas are bound through the act of doing, through the act of making others do or through the act of supporting others do the act.
The Importance of Human Life One returns into the human form, after having wandered through other life forms. And it is also through the human form, that one is released from this cycle of wandering. If one knows how to fulfill his human birth, then he can achieve liberation but if he does not, then that life becomes a vehicle for endless wandering. He dissipates his karmas in all other life forms, but it is only in the human form that he binds as well as dissipates karmas.
This human body has been acquired with great difficulty, so use it to accomplish your work. The soul has spent endless births to acquire this human body. If only, this body spends one birth for the Soul, your work will be done in this very birth.
If as a human one meets a Gnani Purush, then he can acquire liberation. Even the celestial beings have an intense desire to acquire a human form. Through establishing a connection with a Gnani Purush, the body that had been a foe for endless previous births now becomes an absolute friend. It is through this body that you have met a Gnani Purush, so get your work done. Why the Cycle of Birth and Death for the Immortal One?
Questioner: But who has to undergo the cycle of birth and death?
Dadashri: The cycle of birth and death is for the ego. The
