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Whatever has happened is justice
this world and why has God granted them birth? I tell them that
without thieves and pickpockets, who would empty their
pockets? Should God Himself come to do it? Who would
confiscate their illicitly gained money? These poor thieves are
merely the nimits (instrumental in the process of unfolding karma)
and they are necessary.
Questioner : Someone’s hard earned money gets stolen
too.
Dadashri : The hard earned money is of this life, but
there is also the account of the past life. He has pending accounts.
Without such accounts nothing can be taken away from him.
No one has the power to take anything away. And if anything
is taken away, it is because of previous accounts. No such
person is born in this world that is able to do any harm to
anyone. The nature is regulating this precisely. If you were in a
snake pit, not even a single snake would touch you unless you
had a previous account with them. This world is full of accounts.
The world is beautiful and it is just. People do not understand it
FROM THE EFFECTS ONE CAN DETERMINE THE
CAUSE
Similar to the results of an examination, these too are all
results. If you score ninety-five percent in mathematics and
twenty-five percent in English, would you not be able to deduce
from these results where you made mistakes? Likewise, in life
we can determine from the effect or outcome of things, what the
causes for our mistakes were. The results reflect our past causes.
All the events that come together are results, and based on the
results, we can deduce the cause behind it.
A thorn is lying upright on a roadside where many people
walk every day. Many pedestrians use this path, but the thorn
does not hurt them. One day you hear someone yelling, “Thief!