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times ago was carried forward in the life eight life times ago and so on. The balance sheet does not carry forward all the karma, only their balance is carried forward. Whatever the longevity of the person, he will bring with him karmas of that time duration; but the karma are of only one lifetime. You cannot say that they are of two lifetimes.
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Karma requires time to come into fruition; for some people it may take five hundred years or even a thousand to mature. Nevertheless in the balance sheet it is still new.
Questioner: They are carried forward.
Dadashri: Yes, the old account goes into the new account. Nothing is left behind. They are bound in the form of causes and to take effect, it may take anywhere between fifty to seventy-five years.
Who Controls All This?
Questioner: So who manages all this?
Dadashri: The rules of karma are such that when you create a karma, the result will come naturally and automatically.
Questioner: Who decides the fruits of karma we have to experience? Who makes us experience these?
Dadashri: They do not need to be decided. The karma itself does this. It happens on its own.
Questioner: Then who governs the rules of karma?
Dadashri: When two atoms of Hydrogen and one of Oxygen come together, we automatically get water. That is the rule of karma.
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Questioner: But somebody must have made that rule?
Dadashri: Nobody makes the rules; otherwise there would be a creator. No body has to make the rules. This puzzle has come about on its own governed by the laws of science. I am telling you that this world is run only by scientific circumstantial evidences. In Gujarati I call it * Vyavasthit Shakti'.
Vyavasthit Shakti and Karma
Questioner: Is what you call Vyavasthit according to
karma?
Dadashri: The world is not run by karmas, it is run by Vyavasthit. Who brought you here to satsang? Was it your karma? No, Vyavasthit brought you here. Karma is there all the same, so why did it not bring you here yesterday. Why did it bring you here today? Vyavasthit brings together the time, inner intent, space etc. All these circumstances come together to bring you here. Karma is only a small part of Vyavasthit. When the circumstances are right, one claims, that 'I did it', but what happens when the circumstances are not right?
The Fruit Comes Automatically
Questioner: If someone else brings the karma-fruit (fruit of karma), is it still another karma?
Dadashri: No one else can give the fruit of karma. No such person has yet been born. If you were to drink poison here, you will die. No one is needed in the middle to bring the results.
If someone were needed to deliver karma-fruits, then he would have to have a gigantic office. Everything runs scientifically. There is no need for a middleman. When the time is up for maturation of karma, it automatically comes into effect. Just like
