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The Science of Karma
he speaks in a hurtful manner and behaves badly. Is that from
the past life?
Dadashri: What do karmas of the past life mean? It
means that they were created in the form of a ‘plan’. This
plan, the cause, is one’s inner intent. These karmas are
discharging now and one has no choice but to experience
them.
Conflicts Between Husband And Wife…
The bedbugs and mosquitoes that bite are far better and
far less troublesome than the husbands and wives that bite each
other. Do you agree that husbands and wives bite one another?
Questioner: Yes. They do bite.
Dadashri: Then this biting must stop. The bedbugs go
away after biting. The poor thing will leave you alone after it has
had its portion. The wife however, goes on biting incessantly.
One poor man came to me complaining that his wife kept on
biting him like a snake. The foolish man! Firstly, why did he get
married and se condly, why to a snake? Would that not make
him a snake also? Female snakes do not just happen to come
along, unless there is a male around.
Questioner: It must be written in his karma and therefore
he has to suffer his wife’s sting. His wife is not at fault here.
Dadashri: That is it. All this suffering is related to karma.
That is why one gets such a wife, husband and mother-in-law
etc. There are plenty of good wives, husbands, and mothers-
in-law, in the world. Why is it that you are stuck with the one
that bites?
Some men constantly quarrel with the wives. The fools
do not realize that the suffering is because of their own karma.
People always blame the ‘instrument’. The wife is merely an
‘instrument’. Why do you keep biting the ‘instrument’? You will