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Death
Dadashri: All these things have a beginning and an end.
Who is the Knower of this beginning and the end? You are that
Knower.
Things that have a beginning and an end are all temporary.
Anything that has a beginning has an end. Who is the knower
of the temporary nature of everything? You the permanent are
that Knower. You are permanent because you see all as
temporary. If everything was temporary, then there is no need
to call anything temporary. Temporary is a relative word. It is
because of the presence of the permanent, that there is
something temporary.
The Cause Of Death & Birth
Questioner: So why does death occur?
Dadashri: There are three batteries: the mind, speech
and the body, at the time of a person’s birth. These batteries
begin to discharge, present their effect in the womb and continue
to do so throughout life. The effect will finally come to an end
with death. A person’s karmic account is exhausted through
these three batteries. When the effect of these batteries comes
to an end, it is death. These batteries will last until death.
However, as these batteries are discharging, new batteries for
the coming life are being charged simultaneously. In this manner
the charge (causes of karma) and discharge (effects of karma)
continue to take place. The charging or causes take place
because of the person’s ignorance of his real Self. As long as
his wrong belief, ‘I am Chandulal’ prevails, attachment and
abhorrence continue to occur, giving rise to new causes. Once
this wrong belief is replaced with the right belief, ‘I am pure
Soul’; attachment and abhorrence and consequently new causes
cease to occur.