The Science of Karma 5
You remain bound when you are not doing any karma and yet you believe that you are doing it. Not even God is the doer. If he were, then he too would be bound by karmas. Neither you nor God is the doer.
When you pass your exams, you say,“ I passed!” yet, there is another force that prevails behind your success. To believe,“ I did it!” is the false imposition, and that is why you bind karma.
Even Vedanta Accepts God As The Non-doer
Questioner: So if things happen because of some other power, then it would not matter whether one steals or gives to charity.
Dadashri: Yes, you can say that both are the same, but people do not keep them as such. Those that give to charity bind karma because they walk around with inflated egos. The thief too, binds karma when he says,“ No one will ever catch me!” Nothing will touch you, as long as you do not hold the belief,“ I did it”.
Questioner: In the initial stage there is a belief that God is the doer. Going further, the Vedas maintain that God is not the doer. The Upanishads say the same. God is not the doer; everyone has to suffer the fruits of his own karmas. Do the consequences of karma continue life after life?
Dadashri: Yes of course! Karma is like the fruit of a mango tree. The mango will yield the tree and the tree will yield the mango and the cycle continues.
Questioner: That is the principle of Evolution. It keeps continuing.
Dadashri: No. That is the effect of karma. The mango is the fruit, which will have the seed that will grow into the tree, which in turn will yield the fruit. This will continue on. Karma disperses the seeds of karma on and on …