Science of Karma

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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The Science of Karma
The Science of Karma
The Essence Of All Scriptures
has to suffer the fruits of their own karma. Do the consequences of karma continue life after life?
Dadashri: Yes of course! Karma is like the fruit of a mango tree. The mango will yield the tree and the tree will yield the mango and the cycle continues.
Questioner: That is the principle of Evolution. It keeps continuing.
Dadashri: No. That is effect of karma. The mango is the fruit, which will have the seed that will grow into the tree, which in turn will yield the fruit. This will continue on. Karma spills the seeds of karma on and on...
Questioner: Therefore people will then keep on doing good and bad karmas and never be free.
Dadashri: Yes, the pulp of the mango is eaten and the stone seed is thrown out.
Questioner: And on that site will sprout a new mango tree.
That is why Akha Bhagat spoke these words,
If you are Jiva (mortal), the doer is Hari (God). If you are Shiva (Shuddhatma-pure Soul) that is the truth.
It means that if you are a pure Soul, then you are correct. And if you are a mortal living being, then the one above, God is the doer. The truth is that you are a pure Soul and that there is no one up there by the name of God as your superior. So when the difference between Jiva and Shiva is gone, one is ready to become the Parmatma (the Supreme Soul). When people pray to God they are separating themselves from the Lord. Here, after receiving Gnan (the knowledge of Self-Realization), the Jiv-Shiva difference is gone and the separation is eliminated.
The second verse of the poem reads:
When you relinquish the doership, you are free of karma. That is the secret meaning of this great verse.
Charging of karmas occurs with the wrong belief of, 'I am Chandubhai and I did this'. After receiving Atma Gnan (the knowledge that you are pure Soul), you are no longer Chandubhai. In the world's day-to-day interactions you are Chandubhai, but in reality, you are not. In reality you are the Self. 'I did this is a term that is applicable only for your daily interactions. The cycle of karma is broken once your sense of doership goes. After acquiring the Self, Chandubhai, is the doer, you are not.
When the awareness of “I am not the doer" is firmly established in your conviction, new karmas will halt from binding, new causes will not be created. The old karma will discharge. This is the meaning of the great spiritual verse. It is the essence of all the scriptures.
Dadashri: There is no escape.
If you believe that God is the doer, then why do you also believe that you are the 'doer'? Then you too become a doer. Humans are the only species that believe 'I am the doer'. Whenever one becomes a doer. there is a breakdown in dependency on God. God says, 'Since you are the 'doer', then you and I are both free! Do what you want.' Then what use do you have for God?
When one believes that he is the 'doer', he is binding karma. When one ceases to believe that he is the doer, his karma effects will come to an end.