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feelings towards him. You should feel compassion for such a
person.
Which Karma Makes One Rich Or Poor?
If one accepts that whatever happens is justice, then he
will attain liberation.
Questioner: Then Dada, don’t you think that if a poor
man who is very virtuous and religious were to see a wealthy
man who is devious and immoral, he would be put off by
religion all together? He will think that all his piousness has not
improved his poverty at all.
Dadashri: Not every religious person is miserable.
Perhaps even five percent are happy.
Whatever misery befalls us today is the result of our
karma. The fact that a person enjoys wealth and prosperity
today is all the result of his karma. He will suffer the
consequences of whatever bad deeds he does in this life, in his
next life. We will enjoy the fruit of the good deeds we do today,
in the next life.
Questioner: Dada, what you are saying is true. But
looking at it from the point of worldly interaction, if a man lives
in a hut, suffering hunger and thirst, along side a man that lives
in a palace, don’t you think it would make him angry to see the
man in the palace living a life of corruption while he, an honest
and decent man cannot even feed his children? How would he
be able to remain calm?
Dadashri: The misery that he is experiencing now, is a
result of the ‘test’ (cause) he took in the past life. The other
person had also taken the ‘test’, he passed and now he is receiving
the result. Now in this life the rich man’s karmas are such that
he is going to fail the test of this life and the result will come in
the next life. The poor man is now being tested in this life, he
will pass the test and he will enjoy its effects in the next life.