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so that if you were actually doing it today, you could still make
some changes to it. Do you not find that you cannot make any
changes? Do you not come across that?
Planning in the Past Life; Effect in This Life
Questioner: So is there such a thing as fate (kismat)?
Dadashri: That which is fate (kismat), is effect
(prarabdha); the stock brought from the previous life, that is
being used (unfolding) today.
Questioner: So if we committed any bad deeds (paap),
in the last life, would we face its consequences in this life, or
would we have already dealt with it in the past life?
Dadashri: No. The results of transgressions (paap) done
in the past life are rendered in this life only. It is that the
transgressions you did in the last life; occurred as a plan. If you
had to build a dam on the Narmada River, what would happen
first? Would they not draw out a plan first? That is how they
(karmas) happen first, as a plan (cause), and then now, they
materialize (effect) in this life. They do the planning for the
dam, then it is mapped out on paper, and if at the time, the
map tears at the spot where the dam is, would the water come
gushing out? No, it would not. So you will be able to make
changes on the map, but you would not be able to do that later
on. You could have made changes during the planning stage in
your past life, but how can you make any changes to it now?
Therefore, any changes that you make now, will be changes
for the next life. If not, then in the next life, the stamp will be
given and sealed according to destiny (vidhata) and it cannot
be turned around.
Questioner: If the planning is done in the past life, then
when will I do the planning in this life?
Dadashri: The internal planning goes on in each and every
birth, and without the planning nothing can progress.