Thought 58: The cause and effect principle in Creation

Every cause must give rise to an effect. When there is a cause, there is going to be an effect. There can never be any cause without an effect. There can never be an effect without a cause. Cause or effect, are not stand-alone systems. When one happens, the other is inevitable. When you see an effect, there would necessarily be some cause behind it. The cause must always precede the effect. This is not a rule made by any one here. We may try to understand this rule - but can never hope to change it in any way.

When you do something, you get a result. Every action produces a result - that is the rule. You cannot refuse the result. You have to experience the result; there is no escape from it. You cannot also transfer the result to some one else. You yourself have to experience the result of your actions. This is the rule here, again.

Yesterday's actions shape today. Today's actions shape tomorrow. Any day, what you get is what you deserve. Performing bad actions today and expecting to escape their bad results tomorrow is being naive. Performing bad actions today and expecting a good result tomorrow is even worse. Your actions produce results for you alone - not for any one else.

An action need not always be physical. Even thinking is action; thinking also produces a result. I once found my friend Venki tearing a photograph into very small pieces. I was surprised at this and asked him for an explanation. He said that he could not kill her and therefore, he found some satisfaction in destroying the photograph of a lady whom he disliked immensely. There was murder in his mind – and that is an evil action.

Speaking is also action; speaking also produces a result. We can destroy people with our words. You see that scenario vividly in our daily serials in the Indian TV. Similarly, we do several evil actions with our body limbs.

We also find that the nature of the action decides the nature of the result. When you perform a good action, you get a good result - and when you perform a bad action, you get a bad result. For instance, when you think negatively or speak ill of others, it produces a bad result for you – and not for the person against whom your ire is directed.

The next thought is about “The impact of cause and effect in the day-to-day life”