Science of Karma

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

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You cannot call it a benefit.
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What Kind Of Karma Does Mentally Handicapped Person Bind?
Questioner: A normal person would have all kinds of thoughts. Within a minute he would have numerous thoughts and bind many karmas in the process. But a person who is mentally slow never understands a thing. He would be innocent because he has nothing.
Dadashri: Both bind karmas according to their level of understanding. The one who has understanding will create karma with understanding. The one without understanding will bind karma without understanding. His reaction to effect is naïve and more like an animal. If such a person is minimally provoked, he may even throw a stone at you.
Questioner: Should we not have pity towards these kinds of people?
Dadashri: You must. You should have compassion for such human beings who do not understand. You should help them. His mental problems make the person the way he is. It is not his fault. Even if he hurts you, you should not have bad feelings towards him. You should feel compassion for such a person.
Which Karma Makes One Rich Or Poor?
If one accepts that whatever happens is justice, then one will attain liberation.
Questioner: Then Dada, don't you think that if a poor man who is very virtuous and religious were to see a wealthy man who is devious and immoral, he will be put off by religion all together? He will think that all his piousness has not improved his
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poverty at all.
Dadashri: Not every religious person is miserable. Perhaps even five percent are happy.
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Whatever misery befalls us today is the result of our karma. The fact that a person enjoys wealth and prosperity today is all the result of his karma. He will suffer the consequences of whatever bad deeds he does in this life, in his next life. We will enjoy the fruit of the good deeds we do today, in the next life.
Questioner: Dada, what you are saying is true. But looking at it from the point of worldly interaction, if a man lives in a hut, suffering hunger and thirst, along side a man that lives in a palace, don't you think it would make him angry to see the man in the palace living a life of corruption while he, an honest and decent man cannot even feed his children? How would he be able to remain calm?
Dadashri: The misery that he is experiencing now, is a result of the 'test' (cause) he took in the past life. The other person had also taken the 'test', he passed and now he is receiving the result. Now in this life this rich man's karma are such that he is going to fail the test of this life and the result will come in the next life. The poor man is now being tested in this life, he will pass the test and he will enjoy its effects in the next life.
Questioner: But until the poor man is able to accept his lot in life, how is able to understand that?
Dadashri: He can never accept it. On the contrary he binds more paap. He has to know that it is the result of his own karma. We Do Good But The Reward Is Bad Questioner: If the consequence of our doing good is bad,