The Science of Karma
Does One Act According To One ’ s Free Will Or Does It Just Happen ?
Dadashri : Do you ever find that you are forced to do something against your wishes ? Does that happen or not ?
Questioner : Yes , that does happen .
Dadashri : What is the reason for that ? You do not wish to , yet you have no choice . It is the effect of karmas created in your past life .
People believe this effect to be the cause . They do not understand the previous life ’ s effect at all . If anything done in this life were a cause , then why would you do something against your will ? Furthermore , why would you say , “ I did it ,” when you did not want to do it in the first place ? Why do others say you did it , also ? People call all visible actions to be the same as doing the karma . They will say , “ I did a good deed today and so I created a good karma today .” Whereas the Gnani Purush knows that all the visible acts of this life are an effect .
Who Sent You To This Earth ?
Questioner : Are we born of our own free will or are we sent here ?
Dadashri : No one sends you here . It is your karma that takes you to a place where your rebirth is to take place . If your