Aptavani Shreni 08

SR No.: 030038
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Aradhana Trust
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 1 MB

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feel, ‘we have rebirth (punarjanma)' and they have started to believe in it! But they cannot say for sure that there is reincarnation (punarjanma). No one can give them definite proof that it is there. However, because they have seen many of these examples, that reincarnation does in fact exist, it has become established in their faith.
This lady will ask why the other lady is blessed with such a nice mother-in-law, and why she is unfortunate to have hers! So you will come across all sorts of different circumstances.
The Planning Is the Origin of Karma
Questioner: Does one receive the good or bad result of karma in this life or the next?
Dadashri: The karma that is done is in the form of a plan (yojana). Just as the government makes plans, like building a dam on the Narmada River. Now at this time, would the plan stop the water from flowing here? That will only happen when the plan materializes over here, and the dam is constructed. Otherwise, in the planning, everything is mapped out completely, including the dam, but it is still just on paper! That is how all the karma occur in the form of a plan, which we call causes. And then when those very causes take form, then it is called effect. But they take shape in the next life (avatar; birth), which means that you are experiencing the karma of the previous life, and the karma of this life, you will experience in the next life. But these karmas are in the form of a plan, that you will experience in the next life.
Do you not find that right now, although you may not wish it, the karma still happens anyway?
Questioner: Yes, it does.
Dadashri: Why is that? It is because it was already in the form of a plan. And today it has materialized (come into effect),