Science of Karma

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

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by evil and despair is rampant with generally bad karma. Questioner: So here new karmas are being bound? Dadashri: They are being bound day and night. One keeps binding new ones and experiencing the old ones.
Questioner: Is there a better life than this anywhere else?
Dadashri: Nowhere. This is as good as it gets. There are two directions of progress from here. Here if you have a debt, which means that you have bound bad karma; you would have to go to the animal kingdom to pay it off. If your debt were excessive, you would have to take birth in hell, and settle up there before you return to human life. If you accomplish good karmas here, then you become a more elevated human being and live an entire life of happiness. When that is over, you will either return to the same state or go into the celestial form, where you will enjoy the benefits of your credits. Once the credit is used up, you end up back here in the human form.
Questioner: Is the human life span longer than any other life form's?
Dadashri: No, not at all. The celestial beings have a life span of a hundred thousand years.
Questioner: One will have to finish all his karmas first before one gets a chance to become a celestial being, is that not so?
Dadashri: No, it is nothing like that. If someone is a superhuman then he will definitely become a celestial being. A superhuman is someone who instead of enjoying his own happiness gives it away to others. Such people go to the celestial level.
Questioner: How can one give happiness to others when
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he himself is not happy?
Dadashri: That is the reason why he cannot do that. There are however some rare people, but these are very few and far between. In past eras four to five percent of human population attained celestial levels. In this era two to four in ten million go there. In this era, you are wise if you do not give misery too others. If you don't give misery to others, you will come back to the human level, into a wealthy family with all the material comforts. Here again he begins the process of binding karmas, through cheating and stealing, worthy of a bestial life form.
Questioner: Then what law governs this cycle?
Dadashri: The one who is destined for lower life forms does not get caught for his bad deeds. But the one destined for higher life forms gets arrested for the smallest offence. In this way, he is stopped immediately and his coming life changes, before he gets on the wrong path.
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Who does nature assist? Nature helps the heavy karma become heavier and the light karma become lighter. The lighter ones rise to higher life form and the heavier ones sink to the lower life forms. That is the law of nature. The one who has never stolen before gets caught as soon as he steals for the first time, whereas the hardcore thief never gets caught because his karmas are heavy.
Only Humans Bind Karma
Questioner: Is there another life form other than the human where less karmas are bound?
Dadashri: There is no binding of karma in other life forms. It is only here in the human life that karmas are being bound. Moreover, in places where no karmas are being charged, they say, 'Why are we in this prison?" A place where karmas are bound