The Science of Karma 15
bad things are always there. You can never get rid of karma. Once you become aware of who you are and what makes all this happen, you will stop binding karma, forever.
How Did The First Karma Arise?
Questioner: According to the theory of karma, one binds karma and then suffers its consequence later. So in a sense, it is cause and effect: First comes the cause, then comes its effect. So according to your inference, how can you trace back to the original karma?
Dadashri: There is no beginning in that which has no beginning. It is like a beaded necklace. Where is the beginning of the earth’ s rotation and orbit?
Questioner: It has no beginning.
Dadashri: Therefore there is no beginning for this world. It is all round. It has no beginning. But there is liberation from this. Liberation is possible due to the presence of the Self. Everything is round, not square. If it were square, it could be said that it starts from one corner and ends at another. Where is there a corner in something round? The entire universe is round, but your intellect cannot perceive this. So tell your intellect to stand aside. The intellect cannot fathom this, but it can be understood through Gnan.
Which comes first, the egg or the chicken? Alas, just leave it alone and talk about something else, or else you will be doomed to the cycle of birth and death like the chickens and the egg. Anything that has no solution is round. Don’ t you hear of people talking in circles?
Questioner: Still the question keeps arising about where the original karma comes from before birth. In the cycle of eight million and four hundred thousand births and deaths, when and where did all this paap( demerit karma) and punya( merit karma) begin?