Science of Karma

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

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Ouestioner: What kind of good karma have these animals done that they are born into the human form?
Dadashri: They do not have to do good karmas. Let me explain to you. A man gets into a debt and becomes bankrupt. People say that he is ruined. Once he clears his debts, would they go on saying that he is bankrupt?
Questioner: No, then they would not say so.
Dadashri: In the same way, one goes from here to the animal form to clear his debts and return, or may go to the celestial level to clear his credits and return.
Making A Reservation For Lower Life Levels
has to go and take care of it before he can return. If one has acquired a credit, then one has to experience that before returning. The balance remains with him and it never gets used up. When does it get used up? It is used up when the 'doership goes away. Only then can he be liberated. The doership will never go away unless the ego goes. The ego is the doership. If the ego is there, he experiences his karmas elsewhere and returns back to where he was before.
Questioner: Upon returning to the human form from other life forms, where does he take birth? For example, is he born as a fisherman or a king?
Dadashri: He returns to the level he was at when he left the last human form to pay his debts or to enjoy his credits, and his life as a human resumes. This is just like returning home after completing all the necessary shopping. In the same way, the human life is the home. You have to come home. And when the ego comes to an end, you do not even have to stay in this world. Liberation happens when the ego stops. The ego is not used in any other life forms. In the experience of effect karma, the ego is not used and so no karmas are bound. The cows and oxen do not have ego. A horse may appear to have an ego, but it is the ego that is being discharged, it is not a true ego. It is because of the ego that you are here. When it is gone, you will be liberated.
A Return Ticket From The Animal Kingdom
Questioner: You say that one receives the fruit of their karma. So then, can these animals come back into the human form?
Questioner: How can we tell that a human will only be born in the animal form?
Dadashri: All his attributes and qualities will be evident. He will have beastly thoughts; thoughts of how to cheat and deprive others. At the time of his death, his appearance will be bestial.
Questioner: If we were to plant the seed of a mango, we would get a mango tree. Does this apply to humans also? Will humans be humans in the next life?
Dadashri: Yes back to a human form mean, if you look in a maternity ward it is not puppies that are born to a woman. Do you understand that? If a person is virtuous and has good thoughts, he will indeed return to the human form. If instead of enjoying the things that he is entitled to, he gives them to others, he is a superhuman and he will go to celestial life form. There is nothing wrong with enjoying one's own wife, because one is married to her. One cannot take pleasure in things that are not his. Even
Dadashri: They are the ones who come here. They are the ones that are here now. Their population has increased. And they are the ones engaged in unscrupulous enterprises.