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The Science of Karma
The Relationship Of Karma And Soul
Questioner: What is the relationship between the soul
and karma?
Dadashri: Both will separate if the link of doership
between the two is broken. Each will go to its own place.
Questioner: I did not understand that very well.
Dadashri: Without doership there is no karma. With
doership there is karma. If you are not the doer, then no matter
what you do, you will not bind any karma.
Questioner: Then is karma the doer?
Dadashri: The doer is the doer. Karma is not the doer.
Do you say, “I did it,” or do you say, “Karma did it?”
Questioner: The internal belief that “I am doing it,” is
always there. We always say, “I did it!”
Dadashri: Yes, you say, “I am doing it,” and hence you
become the doer. In reality neither the karma nor the soul is the
doer.
Questioner: The soul is on one side and karma is on the
other. How can the two be separated?
Dadashri: They are separate. They seem to be connected
because of this link of doership. Once this doership goes, the
one who claims to be the doer also disappears, and the two will
be separate.
Karma Is Bound Through Internal Actions
Questioner: Does karma apply to human beings?
Dadashri: Human beings do nothing but bind karma,
constantly. The human ego is such that even though it does not
eat, drink, or conduct any actions in the worldly life, it still
maintains a notion of doership, which is why it binds karma.
Karma is bound through the ego that says, “I am doing it.” Is