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The Science of Karma to be a way where despite doing daily activities, no new karmas are bound?
Questioner: There must be.
Dadashri: Do you ever wish for a state where no new karma is bound? There is a science where despite doing daily activities of life, no new karmas are bound? When you know that science you will be liberated.
Ignorance Is The Obstruction, Not The Karma
Questioner: Is it because of the fruit of our karmas that we attain this life?
Dadashri: Yes, this whole life has to be spent experiencing the fruits of past karmas. New karmas are caused by raag-dwesh (attachment-abhorrence). If you do not have attachment or abhorrence there is no new karma.
There is no problem with karma effect. Karma will have its effect as long as this body exists. The problem is with attachment and abhorrence. The fully Enlightened Ones tell you to live your life without attachment and abhorrence.
Whatever activity you do in this life has no value. Only when attachment and abhorrence occurs a new karma is bound. You are not responsible if attachment or abhorrence does not occur.
From birth to death, this body is an effect. Only the attachment and abhorrence is what binds the account. That is why the Vitarags (the fully enlightened Ones) tell us to become Vitarag and be liberated.
When someone insults me, I know that he is insulting Ambalal Patel. He insults this body complex. He cannot understand or recognize the Self. I, the pure Self remain the
The Science of Karma
Knower and the Seer of the event. I am vitarag. I do not have any attachment-abhorrence towards him or towards anything in this world. Final liberation is at hand for me.
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The message of the Vitarags is that it is not the karmas that obstruct our liberation; it is our ignorance. Ignorance of what? The ignorance of the Self. As long as there is a body, karmas will continue to happen, but when ignorance is gone, the binding of new karma stops.
When Does Discharge Of Karma Occur? Questioner: When do karmas stop occurring?
Dadashri: It is when you have the experience of 'I am pure Self'. So when you become the pure Self, karma will stop binding. The discharge of karmas will continue until they are completely exhausted
So how can we stop karmas from binding? Once you come into the nature of the Self, no new karma will bind. This happens when the Gnani Purush makes you aware of your own pure Self. After that, new karmas do not bind and old karmas continue to discharge. When all the karmas have discharged, you will attain final liberation.
Now do you understand karma? Whenever you become the doer, you bind karma but once you are freed from that doer ship, you stop binding new karma. When I release you from the doer ship, you will stop binding new karma and only the effects of the old karma remain. These you will have to experience. No new causes will occur; only the effects will remain. And when all the effects have been completely experienced, you will attain final liberation.
Jai Sat Chit Anand
