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The Science of Karma
Dadashri: I call it an effect. Business is an effect. Do
you have to do anything with the result of an exam? You have
to do something when you take the exam, which is considered
a cause. But do you have to do anything for the result?
Questioner: No.
Dadashri: Similarly even here, you do not have to do
anything. Everything happens on its own accord. Your body is
used in the process and things just happen. For causes, however,
one has to do something. The belief of doership, ‘I did it’, is the
cause. The suffering of that effect, ‘I am suffering’, is also the
cause. Everything else is effect.
Questioner: All the inner intents are causes.
Dadashri: Yes, cause requires no one’s help. When you
cook a wonderful meal, it is all an effect, but if in the process,
you internally feel (inner intent) “I am a great cook. I made a
wonderful meal,” it is this intent that is the cause. As long as you
do not have this inner intent, it is all effect. All that you hear or
see is effect. Causes cannot be seen.
Questioner: So effect is everything that one experiences
through these five senses?
Dadashri: Yes. All that is an effect. Your whole life is an
effect. Bhaav is the inner intent in life. This is the cause. There
is a doer of this bhaav. It is called the ‘ego’ (“I am Chandulal,
and this is happening to me, I am suffering.”). Whatever bhaavs
(inner intent) occur in your life, if you are the ‘doer’ of those
bhaavs, then they are all considered ‘causes’. That is what
everyone in this world does.
Once the karma ceases to bind, that is the end. Are you
able to understand this much? Do you think that you can stop
binding karma? Have you ever seen that happen? When you
become involved in good things, you bind good karma. The