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suffer. The main karmas are those of the child but the mother had instigated( anumodan) those karmas and therefore she has to suffer through seeing her child suffer. To do, to help others do, and to instigating others into doing; these are the three causes behind bondage of karmas.
Questioner: What is the meaning of the swastika( the religious Hindu symbol – not the one adopted by Hitler)?
Dadashri: The swastika symbol represents the four life forms. Its four wings stand for the four different life forms and its center represents moksha( liberation). Ultimately, one will have to go to moksha from all the four life forms. The four life forms are humans, celestials, the animal kingdom and hell. All the four are dependent upon one’ s demerit karmas( paap) and merit karmas( punya) and when one attains Gnan( knowledge of the Self) and has no merit or demerit karmas left; moksha is attained. In the state of moksha, there is neither credit nor debit( of karmas). Here credits will take you to a celestial life form( devagati) or make you a president. One attains a highly affluent position because of his credits( merit karmas). And what if one has a debit? One will have to work in a factory where he will have to work hard the whole day long and even then he will not be able to make ends meet. There is moksha if credit and debit do not occur.
The Significance of Temples
Questioner: If there were no derasars( temples), then would someone else manifest for the people, just as You( Dadashri) have manifest for us today?
Dadashri: That is fine. What you are saying is a vikalp( a projection). They just happen to be, if we did not have temples, would we not have something else to resort to? They would have found something else. But the temples are a very good solution. They are India’ s greatest science. It is the best form of indirect worship( paroksha bhakti), provided a person