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58 The Science of Karma you have to go and take care of it before you can return. If one has acquired a credit, then he must experience that before returning. The balance remains with you and it never gets used up. When does it get used up? It is used up when the ‘doership’ goes away. Only then can you be liberated. The doership will never go away unless the ego goes. The ego is the doership. If the ego is there, you experience your karmas elsewhere and return back to where you were before. Questioner: Upon returning to the human form from other life forms, where do you take birth? For example, are you born as a fisherman or a king? Dadashri: Your life resumes at the level you were at when you left the last human form to pay your debts or to enjoy your credits. This is just like returning home after completing all the necessary shopping. In the same way, the human life is the home. You have to come home. And when the ego comes to an end, you do not even have to stay in this world. Liberation happens when the ego stops. The ego is not used in any other life forms. In the experience of the effect karma, the ego is not used and so no karmas are bound. The cows and oxen do not have egos. A horse may appear to have an ego, but it is the ego that is being discharged, it is not a true ego. It is because of the ego that you are here. When it is gone, you will be liberated. A Return Ticket From The Animal Kingdom Questioner: You say that one receives the fruit of his karma. So then, can these animals come back into the human form? Dadashri: They are the ones who come here. They are the ones that are here now. Their population has increased. And they are the ones engaged in unscrupulous enterprises. Questioner: What kind of good karma have these animals done that they are born into the human form?