Science of Karma

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

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The Science of Karma
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The Science of Karma Questioner: So the slap is the fruit of karma (effect), and not the cause of karma itself, true?
Dadashri: Yes, it is the fruit of karma. It is your unfolding karma that makes you slap him. What if the person you slapped requests you to slap him again? You will not do it. There was a reason for the first slap. You both had a pending karmic account with one another, which ends there. Nothing happens outside the realm of both your accounts. There is no need to be afraid in the world. Do not lose sleep over it, but guard yourself against the arrogance of the belief that nothing will happen to you.
Karma Effects: Worldly View, And Gnani's View
Questioner: It is said that whatever has to be suffered, has to be suffered here in this life. What is wrong with that?
Dadashri: Yes, but that is what the world believes. What is the reality in this?
reputation. The consequences of his arrogance and egoistic behavior are that in this very lifetime, he will be disgraced or discredited. But if in his arrogance he feels from within that his actions are wrong and that he needs to get rid of his weaknesses, then he is binding a new karma of humility for his next life. Because of this new bhaav, he will be humble in his next life.
This is the theory of karma. If your bhaav changes while you are doing something wrong, then you will bind a new karma, based on your new bhaav. But if you rejoice over doing something wrong, then you will bind a new and stronger karma, the consequences of which you will have to suffer.
It is worth understanding this whole science. This science of the Vitarags is very mysterious.
In This Life Or The Next? Questioner: Will one experience the consequences of karmas created in this life, in the next life?
Dadashri: Yes, they will not experience them in this life.
Questioner: So what we are experiencing now, is the result of our previous life?
Dadashri: Yes, it is from the past life. But simultaneously you are binding new karma for the next life. That is why your new karmas should be good. This life is decided, but make sure you do the right thing for the next one.
Questioner: People are not able to do good karma because of the effect and power of this current time-cycle called Kaliyug.
Dadashri: There is no need for good karma.
If a person binds karma of pride through ego in his previous life, then in this life when all the buildings are being constructed, he will becomes unduly proud and say, 'look at my buildings, they are better than the others'. Why does he become so proud? It is because of his pride-karma. People believe that he is binding karma through his proud and arrogant behavior. They call this karma. Really it is the fruit or effect of his past karma. "Fruit means that he is forced to become arrogant against his will; it just happens, and is visible to the world.
What the world labels as arrogance, anger, egoistic etc., their results are suffered in this very life. He pays for his negative qualities in this lifetime when people say that he is conceited, ill tempered and arrogant. He suffers the effects of his egoistic arrogance when people call him conceited and discredit his