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the path to moksha?
Dadashri: Yes, that is true but where do we get to see
such punya in people? There is no stability anywhere.
Because, what do people desire? They say they will bind merit
karmas so that no demerit karmic effects, in the form of pain
and suffering, come their way. However, what does the Lord
say? If you bind merit karmas worth one hundred rupees, that
is how much will be credited to your karmic account. But if
someone comes along and you tell him contemptuously, ‘Hey!
Move out of my way!’ it creates demerit karmas worth two
rupees, but it will not be cancelled out by the merit karmas of
hundred rupees. You will have to experience the effect of both
demerit karmas (paap) and merit karmas (punya). God is not
so naïve. If credit-debit were possible, then there would never
be any misery in the homes of the Vaniks (mostly Jain faith).
But here you have to experience both, happiness as well as
misery. See how precise the Lord is! One can never do
subtraction in karmas.
Kashay Is the Critical Root Cause of Life
After Life
After Self-realization, nothing remains to be done and that
is why I have told you not to do anything. Whatever is being
done is done by a completely different energy but people
needlessly take credit and blame for it. In doing so; they
increase their number of future lives.
Wherever there is kashay, there is nothing but baggage
of parigraha (takes one away from the Self) regardless of
whether it is someone living a worldly life (grahasthi),
someone who has renounced the worldly life (tyaagi), or
someone who lives in the Himalayas. Where there is absence
of kashays there is absence of parigraha, even if one is living
in a palace. Where do I have any parigraha? It may seem that
Dada is a parigrahi (living a worldly life with all the worldly