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The Science of Karma
The Science of Karma
the effect of the effect. The cause of the effect was created in the past life. Going to the restaurant is an effect. Dysentery is the effect of the effect.
He creates a new karma while enjoying the food at the restaurant, and he creates another while suffering the dysentery. So in essence he creates two new karmas, one while he is experiencing the results of past karma, and the other while experiencing the effect of effect. Do Karmas Created Unintentionally Yield Their Effects?
frequently ate at restaurants. They would say that he had bound the karma by eating at the restaurants, and that now he was suffering the effect of that karma. The Gnani would look at the reasons behind him eating in a restaurant; the reason behind how he learned to eat out; the reason behind how everything comes together. He was able to eat in the restaurant when all the circumstances came together. His eating in a restaurant was the result of a cause he made in his last life. When these cause come into effect, he will have to go to the restaurant and so he will end up going there, even if he does not want to. The person is left wondering why he does things against his wishes.
People without Gnan believe that he suffers because of what he does. They believe that karmas are bound and experienced in this very life. But they do not stop to question why that person keeps eating in the restaurant against his wishes. The law that takes him there against his wishes is his past karmic account.
Questioner: He goes to the restaurant because of his bhaavs from the past life and has dysentery in this life. Is this all a discharge?
Dadashri: Going to restaurant and having dysentery are both discharge. The discharge is in nobody's hands. It is out of one's control
If a person understands the theory of karma exactly, then he will be able to understand the way to liberation. What people call karma, the theory of karma calls an effect. People simply have no idea of cause karma. Theory of karma is that cause is when the karma was charged and is not visible. All that is visible is effect of karma. A man eats at a restaurant, as a result of the cause from his past life. Eating in the restaurant is the effect (fruit) of the karma. According to the theory of karma, the dysentery is
Questioner: How much liability is there in karmas created intentionally and unintentionally? Can mistakes made inadvertently, be forgiven?
Dadashri: There is no one crazy enough to forgive you if you unknowingly kill someone. What would happen if your hand accidentally falls on burning charcoal?
Questioner: It would get scorched.
Dadashri: Instant effect. Whether you do it knowingly or unknowingly.
Questioner: If we have to suffer for mistakes made unintentionally, then how much do we have to suffer for the ones made knowingly?
Dadashri: If a man creates a lot of punya karma, these karmas are such that he will become a king, but he creates these karma unintentionally, without any understanding of what he is doing. Then he will become a king without having any conscious knowledge of how to be one. In his next life he inherits his father's throne at the age of five, he reigns for about six years before being ousted by another king. Compare this to a man who becomes a
