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The Science of Karma
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Who Is The Doer, And Who Is The Sufferer?
Questioner: Dada. We have to suffer the consequences
of karmas from our past life, in our current life. But the karmas
that the body in our previous life suffered would have been
extinguished with that body in the funeral pyre. When the soul is
completely pure (nirvikaar) and takes on a new body, why does
the new body have to endure the karma of the previous body?
Dadashri: The previous body suffered the consequences
of its own karma.
Questioner: So?
Dadashri: These karmas were created in the mind. They
are subtle karmas. These karmas are the causes, which create
the causal body.
Questioner: That is all fine, but did that body not have
bhaavs (inner intent)?
Dadashri: It is not the body that does the bhaavs.
Questioner: Then?
Dadashri: The physical body has suffered the fruits of its
action. It experienced suffering when it received two slaps, but
that which has already been in the planning, is coming into
visible action now. The slaps received is an effect. The cause
for this effect was planned in the past life.
Questioner: Yes, but who did the planning? Was it not
the previous body that did the planning?
Dadashri: The body has nothing to do with it. It is all the
doing of the ego.
Of This Life: In This Life?
Questioner: Do we suffer the consequences of all these
karmas in just this lifetime or will we have to suffer them in the
next lifetime as well?