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The Science of Karma 57 form where it does not bind karma but simply goes through the discharge effects of karma, how does that living being acquire the next life? Dadashri: There is a vast area. When a human leaves from here, he may reincarnate as a cow and experience the life of a cow, after which he may be born as a goat. It is not definite that he will be a goat. It can be anything depending on his account. It depends on the causes. He may even be born as a donkey. After two hundred years or so of such wandering and paying off the debt from his karmas, he takes birth again in the human form. Anywhere else, other than the human level, one is transported from one life form to another without cause karma. The process of taking different life forms is from the causes created in the human life form. The discharge may happen in a variety of other life forms and it is not necessary to return to the human life level. It happens because all the karmas have been experienced. These causes are in the form of layers. One layer is shed (effect) in each subsequent life form. When all the layers are gone and eight lives have been completed, he then comes back to the human form. At the most it takes eight lives of wandering about in other life forms before one can return to the human life. That is the law of nature. The balance of karma worthy of the human form stays with him, wherever he goes, even if he goes to the celestial form. It is because of this balance that he is able to return to the human form. Keeping aside this balance, all other karmas are discharged through experience. Questioner: After returning to the human form, how does his life function? Does it function on his bhaavs (causes from last human life)? Based on what karma does his life function now? Dadashri: He has with him a balance of human karmas. The balance is there, but if a debt is incurred (bad karma), then