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The Science of Karma
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make you the Absolute Self. This is an exact science.
Cause-Effect And Effect Of Effect
Questioner: Karmas that were charged in the past life
come in the form of discharge in this life. What about the karmas
of this life, can they discharge in this life or not?
Dadashri: No.
Questioner: When do they come?
Dadashri: Causes of this life are the effects for the next
life. Causes of the last life are the effects of this life.
Questioner: But you have already said that some karmas
are such, that they have to be experienced in this life.
Dadashri: That is what the people of the world perceive.
If someone has dysentery, people would say it was because he
frequently ate at restaurants. They would say that he had bound
the karma by eating at the restaurants and that now he was
suffering the effect of that karma. The Gnani would look at the
reasons behind him eating in a restaurant; the reason behind
how he learned to eat out; the reason behind how everything
comes together. He was able to eat in the restaurant when all
the circumstances came together. His eating in a restaurant was
the result of a cause he made in his last life. When these causes
come into effect, he will have to go to the restaurant and so he
will end up going there, even if he does not want to. The person
is left wondering why he does things against his wishes.
People without Gnan believe that one suffers because of
what he does. They believe that karmas are bound and
experienced in this very life. But they do not stop to ask why
that person keeps eating in the restaurant against his wishes.
The law that takes him there against his wishes is his past
karmic account.
Questioner: He goes to the restaurant because of his