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Thus, karma, in spite of being inanimate, provides results to the jiva. It is therefore, true that the jiva has to go into various stages to particular places and suffer the karmas, according to the karmas done. The disciple believes that only if the Eshwar exists, He would control the entire world and maintain order. But where it is impossible to prove the Eshwar, there imagining the management of Universe is impossible. Therefore, there cannot be a place for the jiva to suffer its good or evil karmas.
The Gurudev answers this query –
ते ते भोग्य विशेषनां, स्थानक द्रव्य स्वभाव;
Te ara e fora 311, hei faru hra .....CE
The jiva has to suffer the good or evil karmas that it has done. It is according to these karmas that there are influences on the jiva and these influences are the Bhavagati of the jiva. There is also the Dravya Gati to suffer the results of the karmas in accordance with the Bhavagati.
There are four Dravyagatis. Naraka, Tiryancha - animals, Manushya - human beings and Deva - demi Gods. Among them, the state where the best good karmas are suffered, is the Devagati - in heaven; the extremely evil karmas i.e the influences of papa, are suffered in Naraka – in hell; the mixed influences of good and evil karmas are suffered in the states of Manushya and Tiryancha.
Let us dwell a little more on the aspect of Gatis. It is not that a jiva suffers a certain result because it goes into that state. But it is because a jiva has a certain karma which has taken it to that state and then it suffers the result of that karma. For instance, if a person is caught in the act of murder, he is arrested, jailed and then the court orders his hanging. So the hanging can be executed only when he is in the jail. Nobody can be executed in his own residence. Here it is not true that he is being hanged because he was in the jail. If it were true, then other people in the
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