Cause And Effect Quotes

“Circumstances occur automatically and scientifically and they dissipate according to the natural law.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“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’.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“There is not a single person in this world who has any control over circumstances.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“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.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“In the worldly life, what is misery? It is the pain created from wrong suspicions.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Life Without Conflict

“People go on forgetting every phase in life. They draw the next phase and keep on forgetting the previous one.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Life Without Conflict

“Only he who has become straightforward himself, can improve others.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Generation Gap

“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).”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“Causes (karmic) are created by doing raag-dwesh (attachment-abhorrence) in situations of happiness and misery; and causes come to an end, when one remains normal or in equanimity in situations of happiness and misery.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Pain and pleasure will keep coming; that is all scientific circumstantial evidence. Pain and pleasure are effective (effects of past causes). In such situations, one should do something that will not cause effects to arise.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“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?”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“If you become impressed by someone, you will become infected by his disease. Then you will become impressed by his attributes and his powers.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“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).”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“This place (worldly life) is one of dependency, ‘We’ (the Self) are independent. We will find a solution if we go back to ‘our’ own place. The whole world is looking to be free of this dependency.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“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.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“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.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“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.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“Karma alone does not take care of everything. One had made a desire of enjoying sex. He does that one karma. So what does parsatta (nature, the other power) say at that time? ‘We cannot give you just the karma of sex, in this world. We have to look at everything around it. So we have to give you a wife, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, aunt-in-law, we have to give you all that too!!’ In wanting just a wife, how much more became latched on to it! What a fiasco! How can one untangle from this web?”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“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.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“The senses (indriyas) keep carrying out their functions. But when do those functions (dharmas) become karmically binding? When one becomes controlled by his mind.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“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.”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Raag (attachment) is a seed for dwesh (abhorrence), and dwesh (abhorrence) is a seed for raag (attachment).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“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.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“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).”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“The mind is of counter-attacking nature. It is the counter-attacking of attacks we did in the past. When attacks are stopped, the counter-attacking will stop.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“One cannot change his current life span but one can change his next life form. The ticket can be changed but death cannot be changed. At the time of death, whatever one is latched on to, that will be his condition in the next life – ya mati, sa gati (His next life will be decided by his state of opinion and intellect at the time of his death).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization

“Man should become very aware when one third (1/3rd) of his life remains that ‘pictures’ of his next life will be taken now (next life forms will be decided).”
― Dada Bhagwan, Death: Before, During After...

“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’.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“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.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma

“Sang (company of people) is not a problem but it should not have a bad effect on you. It is infectious.”
― Dada Bhagwan, The Science Of Karma