224 Quotes About Cause-and-effect

What is the state of the antahkaran (inner complex of mind, intellect, chit and ego) of mhts of the Akram path? Meddling has stopped for them, but when effects of the past karmas unfold, they become confused that, ‘these are my effects’. Whereas, when they ask ‘us’, ‘Are they our effects or someone else’s?’ I will tell them, ‘Theses are someone else’s effects.

Everything is effective. If you are not affected by them, then keep a stock of them, but if they do affect you, then keep the bare minimum.

As long as you are the doer, you will bind karma. Karma is based on doership. When Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) removes this base (of doership), charging of karma stops. Then only discharge of karmas remains.

Acting egotistically as ‘I am this body’, with no consciousness of the self, is karma. But anything done ‘dramatically, as the Knower-Seer, while remaining as the Self, is not karma.

He who serves the causes to become free (from karmic bondage) will encounter all the circumstances that lead to freedom. God keeps helping him there. And God also helps the one who serves causes for bondage (to the worldly life).

Circumstances occur automatically and scientifically and they dissipate according to the natural law.

Gross circumstances, subtle circumstances, circumstances of speech are of the non-Self and they make us dependent; In addition they are in the form of ‘scientific circumstantial evidence’.

There is not a single person in this world who has any control over circumstances.

No circumstance interferes with the one whose attachment and abhorrence towards the body are gone. Circumstances are not the obstacles, attachment and abhorrence is the real interference. Circumstance is a gneya (that to be Known) and you are a Gnata (Knower).