Science of Karma

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

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The Science of Karma
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merit karma result and you receive prosperity and wealth. But when your wealth leaves, it will leave you with unhappiness.
The happiness that you experience is really borrowed happiness, on loan to you. Only accept it if you are going to pay it back (return to the world in another life). If you do not have the means to pay back, then stop enjoying the happiness (do not create a cause karma). It is all on loan. Every form of happiness or misery is on loan. The fruit of punya is happiness and that too is on loan. And the fruit of paap is misery, which too is on loan. Everything is on loan to you. So don't make a deal if you do not want to take another birth to repay the loan. That is why both forms of karma, merit and demerit are to be renounced.
Questioner: If we are just taking back what we had previously given, the account is settled. How can you call it taking a loan?
Dadashri: Whatever happiness you are enjoying now is not something that is coming back to you. You enjoy it all the same, but you will have to make a payment for doing so. You will have to repay it. How will you repay? When you eat a mango and it is sweet, you delight in it and feel content. But the next time you eat a mango and it is sour, you will be equally unhappy. Remember if you do not take any pleasure (I am enjoying) in anything, you will not experience unhappiness (I am suffering).
Questioner: What if one does not become engrossed in it?
Dadashri: Then there is no harm in eating the mango. Mother-in-Law: Daughter-in-Law - Both Faultless
Questioner: I have a lot of conflicts with my mother-inlaw, how can I be free from them?
Dadashri: You should become free from each and every karma. Each time your mother-in-law gives you trouble, you should find freedom from that karma. What should you do for that? You should think of her as faultless. Ask yourself why would she be at fault? Tell yourself that it is because of your own karmas that you have encountered her. She is merely instrumental in giving your effect to you. This is how you will achieve freedom from karma. On the other hand, if you see her faults, you will increase your own karma. When you see fault in others, you bind karmas (cause) and when you look at your own faults, the karmas leave.
We should live our life in a way that does not bind any karma. You should remain detached from this world. It is because of the karmas we have bound that we encounter the people we do in this life. Who are all these people in our family? We have bound a karmic account with them, which is why they are around us. Even if you were to decide that you do not want to speak with them, you would be compelled to speak anyway. This is all a result of vengeance created in your previous life.
Questioner: That is all you see everywhere.
Dadashri: That is why I am telling you to move away from all that and come to me (The Gnani Purush and His Gnan). I will give you whatever I have experienced, so that you too will become free. There is no freedom otherwise.
I do not place blame on anyone but I do make a note of what this world is about. I have seen the world from all aspects and in every way possible. When we see faults in others, it means that we ourselves are still at fault. At some point in time you will have to see the world as faultless. Everything around you has arisen because of your own account. It will be extremely useful to you if you understand just this much.