224 Quotes About Cause-and-effect

The senses (indriyas) keep carrying out their functions. But when do those functions (dharmas) become karmically binding? When one becomes controlled by his mind.

Perhaps the reason almost half of the US population does not vote is related to the election choices.

In this world, ‘I am the doer’ and ‘I know it’’ - that which brings these two inner intents together is called illusion (bhranti).

Hem bilindiği gibi, tembellik bütün kusurların anasıdır.

In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all these things.

If you become impressed by someone, you will become infected by his disease. Then you will become impressed by his attributes and his powers.

Life is to be lived with a focus and thoughtfulness. One has to see ‘what is the outcome’ of each and every action. In thinking about the consequences, does the soul become like that? No. The knower of thoughts about the consequences is the Soul. But the consequences will have to be forthright, no? Should one not live with careful attention?

No one takes birth. Being born is an ‘effect’. Birth takes place automatically. If the causes are nurtured, rebirth is inevitable. The Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) can put a stop to the ‘causes’ and so only the effect will remain.

There is no individual in the world who is a single doer. It is “federal causes” i.e. it is collective causes called scientific circumstantial evidence.