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(apparent doer; instrumental) efforts. You simply continue
making those efforts.
Questioner: Is this just the naimitik karma of prarabdha
(effect)?
Dadashri: It happens because of prarabdha. It only
happens through the inspiration of prarabdha.
Questioner: What is prarabdha?
Dadashri: Prarabdha (effect of karma) means the
bhaavkarma (‘cause’) was created in the past life. That cause
(bhaavkarma) gets fed into this ‘computer’ and it is issued into
the universe where it encounters Nature. Then, along with all the
other natural causes that come together, we receive it here as a
visible effect of that. It is ‘Vyavasthit shakti’ that brings the
‘effect’ here. Then you have to get up when it makes you get up,
and walk the way it makes you walk. Even the good and bad
thoughts arise as a consequence of this very process. This is a
very subtle phenomenon.
Questioner: Is the current prarabdha, the fruit of the
‘cause’ (bhaav) from our previous life?
Dadashri: Yes. It is the fruit of the ‘cause’ (bhaav) from
the previous life. And the new ‘causes’ (bhaavs) that occur
today, are the ‘causes’ for the next life.
Questioner: Do these new intents (bhaavs) that arise
today not give fruit here in this very lifetime?
Dadashri: No, they will not give fruition here. New
bhaavs are ‘causes’, the effects of which will be experienced in
the next life. And so, the cycle of cause and effect, effect and
cause, continues for endless lifetimes. Unless the Gnani Purush
stops the ‘causes’, and puts an end to one’s ‘doership’ of the
cause karma (bhaavkarma), this cycle of cause and effect will
go on and on...