Science of Karma

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

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The Science of Karma
The Science of Karma
is actually called freedom, because there is a choice. The other three levels are all jails because there is no choice.
Questioner: Is it only in the human life form that karmas are bound, even the good ones?
Dadashri: Both good and bad karmas are bound here.
The humans bind karma. If they cause harm or misery to people, they go to the animal form or hell level. If their karmas give happiness to others then they return to the human life or go to the celestial level. So the life level depends on the type of karma bound. Once the level is decided, one has to go through that level, experience the effects and return to the human form.
Only humans have the right to bind karma, no one else. Those who have this right must wander through all four life forms. If they do not do karmas at all, not an iota of cause-karma, they are liberated from this cycle. One can attain liberation only in the human form. There is no other place from which one can attain liberation. Have you ever seen anybody not doing any karma?
Questioner: No, I have not.
Dadashri: All these animals you see, they all eat, and drink and fight and still they do not bind karmas. Likewise it is possible for a human being not to bind any karma while living. This happens when they do not become the doer of the karma and remain as the sufferer of past karma. When they come to me and receive this knowledge of Self-Realization, they become free from all doership of karma and thereafter only the experiencing of previously created karma remains. The ego is the doer of karma.
where it does not bind karma but simply goes through the discharge effect of karma, how does that living being acquire the next life?
Dadashri: There is a vast area. When a human leaves from here, he may reincarnate as a cow and experience the life of a cow, after which he may be born as a goat. It is not definite that he will be a goat. It can be anything depending on its account. It depends on the causes. He may even be born as a donkey. After two hundred years or so of such wandering and paying off the debt from his karmas, he takes birth again in the human form. Anywhere else, other than human level, one is transported from one life form to another without cause karma. The process of taking different life forms is from the causes created in human life form. The discharge may happen in a variety of other life forms and it is not necessary to return to human life level. It happens because all the karmas have been experienced. These causes are in the form of layers. One layer is shed (effect) in each subsequent life form. When all the layers are gone and eight lives have been completed, he then comes back to the human form. At the most it takes eight lives of wandering about in other life forms before one can return to human life. That is the law of nature.
The balance of karma worthy of human form stays with him, wherever he goes, even if he goes to celestial form. It is because of this balance that he is able to return to the human form. Keeping aside this balance, all other karmas are discharged through experience.
Questioner: After returning to the human form, how does his life run? Does it run on his bhaavs (causes from last human life)? Based on what karma does his life function now?
Balance Of Eight Lifetimes Questioner: Whenever a living being goes into a life form
Dadashri: He has with him a balance of human karmas. The balance is there, but if a debt is incurred (bad karma), then he