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48 The Science of Karma anyone to take away another’s pain. I tell it to their faces that they are suffering their own miseries. What nonsense! Questioner: But you can make someone miserable, can’t you? Dadashri: One cannot take anyone else’s misery. Whatever misery people give you is your own effect. The ability to give and the ability to receive are both effects. Effect means that nobody does it; it just happens! Miseries Because Of Demerit Karma Questioner: When a person dies from some kind of disease, people say it is because of bad karma from his past life. Is that true? Dadashri: Yes, with bad karma you get disease and if there is no bad karma there is no disease. Have you ever come across a person with a disease? Questioner: My mother died of cancer about two months ago. Dadashri: It all happens because of bad karma coming into effect. Cancer occurs when paap karmas come into effect. All these heart attacks occur because of bad karma. People today bind nothing but paap karma. That is their business. All day long, they bind paap karma! They do this because they are not aware of it. If they were, they would not do so. Questioner: Her entire life was spent doing devout religious worship, so why did she get cancer? Dadashri: The fruits of her worship are yet to come. She will receive that in her next life. This is the fruit of her past life. By sowing good seeds today, you will receive good fruits in your next life. Questioner: If disease is because of karma, then why does medicine cure it?