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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?