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decreasing?
Dadashri: Yes, that is true. The number of souls remains
the same, but they continue to convert. Sometimes as the human
population increases, the animal population is reduced and vice
versa. This process of conversion continues.
Why do Children Suffer?
Questioner: Why do innocent children have to suffer
physical ailments?
Dadashri: A child suffers the consequences of the effects
of his own karmas and the mother suffers through witnessing it.
The main karma belongs to the child and because the mother had
played a role in supporting that karma, she too has to suffer.
Karmas are bound through the act of doing, through the act of
making others do or through the act of supporting others do the
act.
The Importance of Human Life
One returns into the human form, after having wandered
through other life forms. And it is also through the human form,
that one is released from this cycle of wandering. If one knows
how to fulfill his human birth, then he can achieve liberation but
if he does not, then that life becomes a vehicle for endless
wandering. He dissipates his karmas in all other life forms, but
it is only in the human form that he binds as well as dissipates
karmas.
This human body has been acquired with great difficulty, so
use it to accomplish your work. The soul has spent endless births
to acquire this human body. If only, this body spends one birth
for the Soul, your work will be done in this very birth.