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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Aptavani-8
karma. For example, what kind of karma do these miniscule insects do that would help them in their future lives?
Dadashri: Unlike humans, any other beings that do karma do not have consequences. They just do their karma and then they are freed.
Questioner: So what life-form do insects have in the next life? Will an insect stay an insect?
Dadashri: No. From being an insect, they will have a second avatar (birth) and a third avatar. It goes into another place of creation (yoni) and day by day it sheds its karma. It can only suffer the karma that it had bound, it cannot bind new karma. Only humans can bind new karma. Even the celestial beings (devas) are enduring their karma. The celestial beings endure credit (merit karma), and animals suffer debit (demerit karma), while humans suffer both credit and debit. However, although humans suffer them, they also become doers and so they bind new karma.
Questioner: Is this body not the result of karma? Dadashri: Yes, it is indeed the result of karma.
Questioner: Does karma not have to be completely discharged?
Dadashri: If there is complete discharge of karma (nirjara) then one goes to the abode of Liberated Souls (Siddha kshetra). However, when the chit (inner component of knowledge and vision) becomes pure (shuddha), you can say that the discharge of karma (nirjara) has occurred. Forces of Discharge Cause Charging in Ignorance
Just as the cells of a battery are charged (with energy), that is how the body has also been charged. There is no life (chetan) in the body. The life lies within; the life is in the Atma. The body is chetan that has been charged!