Aptavani-4
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Dadashri: Yes. That happens. Right now the event may
be of shubha (good) karma, but one may be binding bad
karma from within.
Overt Karma: Subtle Karma
Questioner: How can we tell whether a karma is old
(discharging, effect) or new (charging, cause)?
Dadashri: Nobody can see whether a karma has been
created (charged) or not. Only the Lord, the One with absolute
knowledge (kevalgnan), can know this. There is not the
slightest trace of new karma in what you see in the world today.
As long as you stay as the Knower-Seer (Gnata-Drashta) of
the unfolding karma, you will not create a new karma. But if
you become tanmayakar (‘I am Chandubhai, I am doing this’),
then you will bind new karma. It is only after You become
Atmagnani (knower of the Atma), that you stop binding
karma.
All the upchar (remedies-spiritual/religious) and medicines
that are around in this Kaliyug (the current era of the time cycle
characterized by lack of unity in mind, speech and body) are
wrong. If a man does charitable work, is pious in his religion,
donates money to temples, he does all that throughout his day,
he is regarded by people as a ‘religious’ man. But within him, the
man conceals intentions like, ‘How do I amass more?’ And
‘How can I find gratification?’ His real desire is to take from
others, what is not rightfully his. In this Kaliyug (the current era
of the time cycle), people generally desire to take things that are
not rightfully theirs. They are always ready to enjoy something
they have no right to. He may, on the outside, be displaying his
generosity by acting charitably and flaunting his ‘religious’ nature
with visible austerities, but internally he is harboring thoughts of
illicit money and sex. The Lord does not grant such a man a
single penny’s worth of credit. Why is that? It is because these
are all sthool (perceptible; overt) karma. All of which you see