The Science of Karma 39
Questioner: If the effect of attraction is happiness and the effect of abhorrence, is unhappiness, would it be a direct or an indirect effect?
Dadashri: It is nothing but a direct effect. With attachment, merit karmas result and you receive prosperity and wealth. But when your wealth leaves, it will leave you with unhappiness.
The happiness that you experience is really borrowed happiness, on loan to you. Only accept it if you are going to pay it back( return to the world in another life). If you do not have the means to pay back, then stop enjoying the happiness( do not create a cause karma). It is all on loan. Every form of happiness or misery is on loan. The fruit of punya is happiness and that too is on loan. And the fruit of paap is misery, which too is on loan. Everything is on loan to you so don’ t make a deal if you do not want to take another birth to repay the loan. That is why both forms of karma, merit and demerit are to be renounced.
Questioner: If we are just taking back what we had previously given, the account is settled. How can you call it taking a loan?
Dadashri: Whatever happiness you are enjoying now is not something that is coming back to you. You enjoy it all the same, but you will have to make a payment for doing so. You will have to repay it. How will you repay? When you eat a mango and it is sweet, you delight in it and feel content. But the next time you eat a mango and it is sour, you will be equally unhappy. Remember if you do not take any pleasure( I am enjoying) in anything, you will not experience unhappiness( I am suffering).
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Questioner: What if one does not become engrossed
Dadashri: Then there is no harm in eating the mango.