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The Science of Karma
Dadashri: It has no beginning.
Questioner: It has to have a beginning somewhere.
Dadashri: It started when the intellect began and it will
end when the intellect ends. Otherwise it has no beginning.
Questioner: Who gave us this intellect?
Dadashri: Where is there a giver in all this anyway?
There is nobody above you. If someone were to be your giver,
then he would be your superior and he would always remain as
such. There would be no such thing as liberation in the world.
How can there be liberation when you have a superior?
Questioner: But what was the first karma? What was
the original karma that gave rise to this body?
Dadashri: Nobody has given you this body. It is all a
result of the coming together and interactions of the six eternal
elements. In reality, you have not been given this body. You
have assumed this body to be yours. This is your illusion. When
this illusion goes away, there will be nothing there. It all came
about because of the belief, “I am Chandubhai.”
Karma Of One Or Numerous Lives?
Questioner: All these karmas cannot give effect in just
one lifetime. So does that mean that one has to suffer them over
a period of many lifetimes? How can one attain liberation unless
all his karmas are finished?
Dadashri: One cannot even begin to think about
liberation. When the karmas for a particular lifetime come to
end, that is when the body departs. But by then new karmas
have already been bound. So, how can one talk about liberation?
Old karmas (effects), from the previous life, do not follow you.
You are binding karmas even at this very moment. While you
are engaged here, asking these questions, you are binding punya
karmas (good karma).