Best 205 quotes in «cause and effect quotes» category

What does our science say, that we have no problems with you stealing, but do pratikraman for it, in this way [by way of Dadashri]. And this is the fruit (consequences) of whatever you are doing; which ‘we’ are disclosing to you.

What does nature say? Any injustice towards you is justice, and justice towards you is also justice. Hence do not do any sankalp (my-ness) and vikalp (I-ness), otherwise you will have to accept justice through crying. Instead, say it is vyavasthit (scientific circumstantial evidence), and you will find the solution.

Whatever actions that are seen in this world, are the discharging of karma that has previously been charged. A person has nothing to do with it. There, he does the egoism that I have done samayik (introspective analysis as Self). One binds karma there, and gets entrapped. He is indulged in the pride of doership there!

Whatever consolation you accept, that much penance will be deficient.

Whatever firm decisions (nischaya) you have made; only those will bear fruit. You do not have to do anything else.

Whatever ‘wrong’ the world is doing; it is all dependent on prarabdha (effect of past life causes) and whatever ‘good’ it is doing; that too is dependent upon prarabdha (effect of past life causes).

What is 'discharge'? It will not move away till it’s time has come. Discharge does not happen at your convenience, if you are in a hurry.

What is punya (merit karma) and paap (demerit karma)? No one runs this world. But still, the circumstances of merit and demerit karma, runs this world.

What is the main cause of karma? What binds karma? Karma is bound because of presence of doership. As long as there is a belief that ‘I am Chandubhai’, one will bind karma. ‘I am Chandubhai’ is aropit bhaav (deluded view; False attribution of the belief ‘I am Chandubhai’, on the Self), and thus it becomes a doership.

What is the nature of merit karma (punya)? It will be spent. There may be a thousand ton of ice, but what is its nature? It is to melt away.

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.

What is the rule of God? He does not bind the one who wants to become free, and the one who wants to be bound, He never lets him go.

When a baby comes out of the mother’s womb; it comes out upside-down; head-first. Who did this? Can the baby turn itself around? Does the doctor pull it? Does the mother push it? Who does it? It is an ‘effect’! It is the ‘result’! The ‘causes’ that were there from before [from past life]; will naturally bring forth an ‘effect’.

When all the circumstances come together and the work gets done, it is called prarabdha (ordained effect of previous lives causes). And when the circumstances come together through which the work is being done, the dhyan (spontaneous inner intents) that arises at that time, is called purushartha (self effort; new causes of next life).

When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

When facts give way to faith, then and only then have you unlock the possibilities within!

When I try to reconstruct the place that I was, at that point in my life, to figure out how I got there, to that punch, to that bed, to that girl—I can't. I can see where some bad decisions led to some other bad decisions, but I can't get all the way there; it's like I imagine a curve, where I'm dropping lower and lower down, and then I'm off the radar screen, invisible, and then, after some time goes by, the line is rising, visible again, and I don't know what happened in between.

When planning (karmic causes) is being done, if One (Self) becomes engrossed in that situation, that means in the situation, he became situated (avasthit). The state, of becoming situated (avasthit), then mixes with nature and when that result comes into effect; that is result of scientific circumstantial evidence (vyavasthit).

When one becomes ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal’ in circumstances; it is called a vishaya (involvement in worldly subjects and sense pleasures).

Wonderful things happen due to positive beliefs and good karma. Change your mind set to earn good karma and to make your life beautiful.

When you aren't open to grow; you are in fact creating hindrances in everyone’s growth because everything is connected in the universe.

When you do the unexpected, you get unexpected results.

When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousness.

Without the attainment of Soul (Self-realization), there is no place that is worth having a fanatic attachment to a viewpoint. It is not worth holding on, or being stuck at a single place.

Working hard without a cause is like wasting your time sincerely

Worldly efforts (laukik purusharth) are all an effect (prarabdha – effect of past life causes). To work in one’s profession is an effect (prarabdha). To give sermons, is also an effect. Even listening to this satsang is an effect. That in which there is dependency upon other things; it is all effect (prarabdha).

Worry is the greatest seed (cause) for the worldly life because worrying is the greatest form of egoism. If the egoism leaves, worries will leave.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. This has been the case with me. Connections slowly emerge. Like distant landmarks you are approaching, cause and effect begin to align themselves, draw closer together. Experiences too indefinite of outline in themselves to be recognized for themselves connect and are identified as a larger shape. And suddenly a light is thrown back, as when your train makes a curve, showing that there has been a mountain of meaning rising behind you on the way you've come, is rising there still, proven now through retrospect. Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever lost.

When there will not remain any such thing which we like to eat, then there will not remain any such thing which we do not like to eat.

When you desire something you add it in your vibration. Even when you think of something negative you give energy to it and the universe responds accordingly.

When you get irritated with children; that is considered as taking a new ‘loan’ (new karma is charged). You have not yet paid off the old one! To become irritated is an “extra item” outside of the “contract” (the past lives deeds between 2 people). This is how one continues to create new debts (new karma is charged).

Whilst the world will be whole, and refuses to be disparted, we seek to act partially, to sunder, to appropriate; for example,—to gratify the senses, we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character. The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,—how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, &c., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless; to get a one end, without an other end.

With regard to us, she often displayed a cruel unkindness that was more thoughtless than sadistic: her desire was not to cause us unhappiness but to prove her own power to herself.

You can improve your overall vibration just by improving your paradigm. For example, if you are hopeless then feel contentment for a while. When you are sad change your state by going out for a walk or meditating.

You are free to enjoy what is yours, but happily enjoying what is not yours will bind a strong karmic knot, and ruin many more future births. But that knot will loosen up through pratikraman (apology) and one will have the opportunity to become free.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

You must not think that because one thing happens after another thing, then it is the first thing that causes the second thing. You must not think that, because it might not be true.

Your religious book(s) mentioned the power of mind thousands of years ago so WHY do you have to wait until the science proves it in the 21st century? Let others wait to realize/prove the facts not you.

You see someone coming and going in the world but no one comes or goes. It is a deluded vision that makes you see the ‘coming and going’.

You ever think how the most minor decision can change the entire direction of your life? Like, say you miss your bus one morning, so you buy that second cup of coffee, buy a scratch ticket while you're at it. The scratch ticket hits. Suddenly you don't have to take the bus anymore. You drive to work in a Lincoln. But you get in a car crash and die. All because you missed your bus one day. I'm just saying there are threads, okay? Threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

You’ have to ‘see’ what ‘Chandubhai’ is doing; that is prurshartha (real independent Self effort). What is illusory effort? ‘What inner intent (bhaav) was there and what inner intent was not there’ in whatever is happening is illusory effort. In illusory effort, intent comes in the middle and in the exact, real effort, there is ‘knowing-seeing’.

Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces; but can never afford a reason that it exceeds a hundred.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.

Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.