Science of Karma

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

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will materialize.
Questioner: These cyclones are also vyavasthit?
Dadashri: Then what else produces the cyclones all across Bombay? Many are not aware of it because it does not affect them. Although the cyclone hits everyone in Bombay, it affects people in different ways. Some people's homes get blown away while even the doormats of certain homes remain untouched. Everything happens very methodically and precisely. There is no need to be afraid of the cyclones. Vyavasthit sends everything.
Questioner: All these earthquakes, cyclones and wars, don't they happen because of the law of construction-destruction (increase-decrease)?
Dadashri: No. They are all dependent on the timing of karma effect. Everyone is experiencing the consequences of their karma. Earthquakes occur even when there is an increase in human population in the world. If it were based on an increased destruction, then would it happen?
Questioner: Is it the timing for the individuals who have to suffer it?
Dadashri: It includes everyone, humans, animals and everything. The unfolding of the effect is collective. Just like the effect that came for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Questioner: Just as an individual does bad deeds, is the act done collectively, suffered collectively too? If just one person goes to steal and if ten people go on a raid, does that mean they are all punished collectively?
Dadashri: Yes, the punishment is going to be in its entirety but the amount, will depend on the intensity of inner intent of the
individuals at that time. Perhaps one of them was forced to steal against his will. The account depends on the strength of the intent. It is very precise.
Questioner: But these natural disasters that occur, for example cyclone or a volcano killing thousands of people, would that be as a result of collective punishment?
Dadashri: That is everyone's account. Only the ones with pending account get caught, nobody else. Say there was an earthquake in Bombay and some folks have gone on vacation to another city. And others from elsewhere are here in Bombay. These are all effects of accounts.
Questioner: Many more people die collectively nowadays than in previous times. Before, we never used to witness so many people dying collectively in such large numbers. Is that the result of the collective bad karma they did?
Dadashri: There were not many large groups in the past. Nowadays there are many working under individual flags for example, communism etc., so that all the deeds are grouped together.
Questioner: So are the droughts, floods, earthquakes killing hundreds of people are actually a result for a group?
Dadashri: It is all a result of a group of people's causes.
Questioner: So if they are to be a part of the punishment, they will be drawn here no matter where they are?
Dadashri: Nature brings them here in the area of the earthquake or cyclone etc, and punishes him.
Questioner: Yes, Dada. There are examples of people who have missed a plane for some reason, while others who were