The law of cause and effect

                                         

                             The law of cause and effect is one of the preliminary laws realized during our spiritual growth process. Eventhough this law is realized in the preliminary phases of spiritual growth, it is a very significant realization which can teach us to develop and grow spiritually mature, help put an end to violence and therefore help uplift peace on the individual, societal and world level, help us learn that the returns we get depends on the type of action we invest, can teach us how to contact and accumulate no more suffering and make us realize that  the fruit of our actions is not something to be desired and that we have no control over the quality of fruit we achieve. Every effect on planet earth has a cause and without a cause there can be no effect. There is always a cause or reason for something to come into creation, develop, come to an end and get renewed once again. Our existence on planet earth has a spiritual cause and even God had a cause to create the entire manifested Universe and that was how the presence of the entire Cosmos came into effect. Every sub-atomic, atomic, molecular, minor and major details or effect in the Cosmos has a cause. For an effect to come into creation there has to be a compulsory cause.

                              We  reap what we sow. For example, if a farmer sows good quality seeds of a certain kind of grain, the harvest will be good quality crop. If the seeds are not of good quality and if there are no investments of good fertilizers and adequate irrigation system, the outcome of the harvest will certainly be poor quality. There may be cases of all the proper farming investments by the farmer but if the crops give way to an onrush of a flood, a tornado etc or if the cattle of one of his neighbours stray into his field and graze it in broad daylight, this implies that his karmic bondage is taking effect. The results or karma of his past life is taking effect into his present life. If one has sowed good actions in his past life the results will be beneficial results or effect in his present life. There has to be a positive, balanced and harmonious karma for succeeding results to be exactly the same. To understand this more simply, the acceding state of affairs in your life only and only depends on all of your preceeding karma in your present and past lives. Therefore, the kind of life that you want and have  solely depends on your choice. So whether you have a positive or a negative life depends on the similar kind of choices you have made in the past.

You are what your deep, driving desire is.

As your desire is, so is your will

As your will is, so is your deed

As your deed is, so is your destiny.

                                                                            -Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 

                             

                                Your entire life gets programmed and shaped towards its destiny the way you have planned and programmed your brain. Whether you want to be happy or unhappy, successful or unsuccessful, rich or poor depends on the kind of desires your mind programmes. We are the way our normal brain functions. Everything is a choice. For example, I knew beforehand that I was about to contract a mental disorder. However, I did not become alert about it and chose not to avert the onslaught of a psychiatric disorder and therefore succumbed to a two decade long bout of Paranoid Scizophrenia. Every sequential events in your life is the outcome of the sub-conscious choices  your brain  made in the past. So in the material life, your brain is the choicemaker whether you will be enjoying a happy or an unhappy, elated or depressed and a rich or poor lifestyle. So if you are not financially well settled or if you are poor don’t blame God that you are a beggar. The human brain plans, programmes, instruments, creates, develops and executes the kind of life that we get to enjoy. Therefore, never think and plan negatively  and always enjoy healthy and competent thought processes.

                             The very first step in contacting no more suffering into our lives is to sow actions that causes no more  suffering. “What has to done if you have sowed good actions but there persists an intense amount of suffering like there was in my life before?” Sri Krishna has declared that everybody has to find solutions to his own problems and there is no reason why you cannot find one to your own life of intense suffering. So it would be worthwhile to realize that the solution to all individual, societal and world suffering can only be availed by undergoing the spiritual evolution or the spiritual growth process. Human suffering cannot be averted by instrumenting the human intellect and the physical body. The dawn of the state of Samadhi, the Absolute or the Unitarian plane or the state of no-suffering is the only existing solution to all kinds of human suffering. Let me make it clear that the state of Samadhi is not transcending the fourth spiritual centre or achieving the state of Self-Realisation like some Non-Being saints have proclaimed but it is in going beyond the Ultimate seventh Unitarian plane. Sow good actions that will accumulate no more suffering but if you contact intense suffering inspite of all your repeated attempts of performing good actions because of your past karmic bondage, realize the essence of the state of no-suffering, be a good boy and start meditating.

                        So the golden rule-“Sow good actions that will create no more suffering.” If there is intense suffering in your life, be wise enough to start the spiritual growth process. The fruit that we achieve out of our daily karma is something that is not to be desired because the quality of fruit that you get depends upon the Will of God. The kind of results you achieve whether they may be minimal, mediocre or maximum depend upon your daily interview with God and don’t find it astonishing to know that everyone is being interviewed everyday on a daily basis by the most Supreme Godhead. One of the greatest advantages of abiding by the law of cause and effect is the ever magnifying peace-effect it has in the individual, society and the entire World just solely because of undergoing a spiritual overhaul through the spiritual growth process. Don’t take this scribes word for granted because great saints have already proven to the world the very great changes that can be brought about by the spiritual growth process in the lives of individual people, the society and the entire world.

                           The whole secret of the state of happiness lies in living a life of balance. So let us strive for a harmonious and balanced life through an interdependent or interactive coordination of all the good and virtuous things in life. The best measure to spring this into effect would be to transform from a material to a spiritual  life. As all the great saints declare that the blossom of spring into our lives can only come  about when we make a U-turn from a material to a spiritual life.
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