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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