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The Science of Karma
The Science of Karma
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Dadashri: What do karmas of past life mean? It means that they were created in the form of a plan. This plan, the cause, is one's inner intent. Those karma are discharging now and one has no choice but to experience them.
Conflicts Between Husband And Wife...
If you had bound sticky (difficult) karma, the results will be sticky also. Such karmas unfold to give you the opportunity to be free from this stickiness. Everything is your own account. If a person starts cursing you, is his conduct improper? No, this is exactly correct, it is the effect. Whatever it is, it is a worldly interaction, a cause-effect relationship. The difference between the one who knows the Self and the one who is ignorant of the Self is this. The One, who knows the Self, would be glad if someone were to insult him because he sees that this is freeing him from the karma. A person, who does not know the Self, will retaliate and bind more karma. When someone insults you, it is nothing but the effect of your own karma and he just happens to be instrumental in it. With this awareness, new karma is not bound. Every effect karma, brings with it, its own nimit (instrument). It has already been decided through which 'instrument, the effect will occur. Dharma is where there is no attachment or abhorrence during the karma effect
Are Obstacles Self Created? Questioner: If someone tries to stop us from coming to satsang, is it because of our own karma?
Dadashri: Yes. Nobody can touch you if you are not at fault. Everything you experience is the result of your own mistakes. You yourself have bound these karmas of obstacles. And karma that have been created will have to be experienced.
Questioner: Were these mistakes made in our previous life?
The bedbugs and mosquitoes that bite are far better and far less troublesome than the husbands that 'bite' their wives and the wives that bite their husbands. Do you agree that husband and wife bite each other?
Questioner: Yes. They do bite.
Dadashri: Then this biting must stop. The bedbugs go away after biting. The poorthing will leave you alone after it has had its fill. The wife however, goes on biting incessantly. One poor man came to me complaining that his wife kept on biting him like a snake. The foolish man, why did he get married and that too, to a snake? Would not that make him a snake also? Female snakes do not just happen to come along, unless there is a male around.
Questioner: It must be written in his karma and therefore he has to suffer the sting of his wife. His wife is not at fault here.
Dadashri: That is it. All this suffering is related to karma. That is why one gets such a wife, husband and mother-in-law etc. There are plenty of good wives, husbands and mothers-in-law in the world. Why is it that you are stuck with the one that bites?
Some men keep quarreling with the wives. The fool does not realize that the suffering is because of his own karma. People always blame the 'instrument'. The wife is only an 'instrument'. Why do you keep biting the instrument'? You will not accomplish
Dadashri: Yes, in the past life.
Questioner: Although I interact nicely with a person, he talks in a hurtful manner and behaves badly. Is that from the past
