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donated.” One will be rewarded for all that, here. For all that,
they will be rewarded here (in this life), but what does that have
to do with the next life? The Lord is no fool that He will accept
such falsehood from you. They may be doing samayik on the
outside, but who knows what is going on inside.
One man was doing introspective meditation (samayik)
when someone knocked on his door. His wife opened the door.
A man had come looking for him. “Where is the sheth (the
boss)?” he asked, and the wife replied, “He has gone to a
garbage dump (a bad part of town, renowned for illicit
activities)!” The sheth, upon hearing his wife’s reply, looked
within and realized that indeed, that is where his mind was!
Although on the outside he was doing a samayik, he kept
having bad thoughts within. God does not allow such falsehood
to carry on. If samayik prevails internally, although it may not be
the case on the outside, it will still be acceptable ‘there’
(moksha). But this external ostentation will not work over there.
I will explain to you what overt (sthool) karma is. Say
you become very angry. Even though you do not want to get
angry, the anger still comes. Doesn’t that happen?
Questioner: It does happen.
Dadashri: When that anger happens, you reap the
consequences right here and now. People will say, ‘Let him be,
he has got a ferocious temper anyway.’ Someone may even slap
you. Therefore, either through disgrace or by some other way,
you will receive the fruit of your karma. So, to become angry
is your overt (sthool) karma. But if your inner intent (bhaav)
of today is one of, ‘It is necessary to get angry’, then it would
be, that you are creating another account of anger. But if today
you have decided in your mind that you do not want to get angry
at all, but despite that if you still do, then there will be no binding
(karma of anger) in the next life. In this overt (sthool) karma,
because you displayed your anger, you will have to suffer its