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Part Two
The State of the Soul
What is Birth and Death?
Questioner: What is birth and death?
Dadashri: Birth and death do occur, there is no question
about it. We all witness its occurrence. Death takes place when
all the accounts of karma of a person’s life are finished. Whatever
account he had bound for the current life, comes to an end and
therefore death occurs.
What is Death?
Questioner: What is death?
Dadashri: Death is like this: When you sew a shirt, you
can say that the shirt is created or born. Death is inevitable to
whatever is born. The Soul is free from the bondage of birth and
death. It is eternal; it has no death. Anything that is born has to
die, and because there is death, there will also be birth. So death
is connected to birth. Wherever there is birth there is death.
Question: Why is there death?
Dadashri: Birth and death are events. Every event has an
end. The inherent nature of any thing that begins i.e. an event, is
that it always comes to an end. Was it not a beginning when you
went to school and did that event not come to an end? Everything
has a beginning and an end. Do you understand?
Questioner: Yes.