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The Science of Karma
period? First a fulfillment of a certain time period is required
before a cause becomes an effect. Nothing will happen without
this time period. It is like a mango tree. First the tree will
produce blossoms and then the mango. Is time not intrinsic in
the process of maturation? Does it ripen in just one day? Similarly
some of the karmas that one binds need a hundred years to
ripen before they give fruit.
Questioner: So are the karmas of this life the result of
karmas caused in the last life or are they also the causes from
many other lives prior to that?
Dadashri: No, nature is not like that. Nature is very
precise and meticulous. For example, the balance sheet of karma
(merit and demerit) created in your ten lifetimes ago, was carried
forward in the life nine lifetimes ago. The balance sheet of the
life nine lifetimes ago was carried forward in the life eight lifetimes
ago and so on. The balance sh eet does not carry forward all the
karmas; only the balance is carried forward. Whatever the
longevity of the person, he will bring with him karmas of that
time duration; but the karmas are of only one lifetime. You
cannot say that they are of two lifetimes.
Karma requires time to come into fruition; for some people
it may take five hundred to even a thousand years to mature.
Nevertheless in the balance sheet it is still new.
Questioner: They are carried forward.
Dadashri: Yes, the old account goes into the new account.
Nothing is left behind. They are bound in the form of causes
and to take effect, it may take anywhere between fifty to seventy-
five years.
Who Controls All This?
Questioner: So who manages all this?
Dadashri: The rules of karma are such that when you