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The Science of Karma
The Science of Karma
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attachment and abhorrence is the seed for new karma, which will have to be suffered in the next life.
Questioner: So what is needed then?
Dadashri: There is a need for good bhaavs (intentions) within. Good karmas can only be done if one's prarabdh (fate) is good. But good intentions (bhaavs) can be made, even without good prarabdh.
When Does Bad Karma Give Results?
Questioner: How can one be liberated when one has to experience the consequences of good and bad karmas in this or the next life?
Dadashri: The consequences of karma is not the problem, it is the seeds of karma that are destructive. On the path to liberation, if one ceases to sow new seeds, the fruits of past karma will come and leave. The Soul is then liberated. Once new karma is created, you will have to experience its consequences. It will not let you go and that is why they are obstructive. With past consequences, you merely have to taste the fruits and move on.
Questioner: You said that one would have to experience even the smallest of karma, if created.
Dadashri: Yes, you have no choice but suffer them. There is no way out. You can be liberated even while experiencing the fruits of past karma, but liberation is impossible if one continues to bind new karma, because one will have to stay back to reap the consequences of the karma
Questioner: Do we experience the fruits of our good and bad karma in this lifetime or in the next?
Dadashri: The consequences of karma that are visible, for example when a person steals, cheats and betrays others are suffered in this life. While suffering them the internal intent of
Every Life: A Balance Sheet Of Previous Lives
Questioner: Are the karma today in my life, an accumulation from countless past lives?
Dadashri: Every life is the balance of infinite previous lives. It is a balance sheet. This applies to all past lives. It is not a sum total of all the lives. According to the law of nature, when the time is right the karma must come into fruition, otherwise a lot of karmas will be left over.
Questioner: Is this all linked to the past life?
Dadashri: Yes. One cannot do both; create cause and suffer its effect, in one lifetime. Why can one not create both at the same time? How can cause and effect have the same time period? First a fulfillment of a certain time period is required before a cause becomes an effect. Nothing will happen without this time period. It is like a mango tree. First the tree will have blossoms and then the mango fruit. Is time not intrinsic in the process of maturation? Does it ripen in just one day? Similarly some of the karmas that one binds need a hundred years to ripen before they give fruit
Questioner: So is the karma of this life the result of karma caused in the last life or are they also the causes from may other lives prior to that?
Dadashri: No, nature is not like that. Nature is very precise and meticulous. For example, the balance sheet of karma (merit and demerit) created in your ten life times ago, was carried forward in the life nine life times ago. The balance sheet of the life nine life
