Cause and effect, from a Vedic standpoint (which is how I have come to see the world), is a function of karma (the resultant effects of previous actions) and a reflection of the essential nature of Maya, which is duality. As such, our experience is that we have a continuous flux between two poles or opposites, be they dark and light, day and night, good and evil or Yin and Yang. This duality and dance between opposites is also seen in Traditonal Chinese Medicine…where Yin and Yang both contain the seed of each other and are continuously transforming one into the other.
But, it seems that this dualistic reality is just an illusory projection of our ‘mind stuff’ or consciousness. Which is why, in Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda recounts story after story of seeming miraculous events performed by swamis and yogis…healings from otherwise fatal diseases, sages who live for eons without aging or dying, saints who seem t live on nothing but air, and on and on. What Yogananda explains is what is has learned from his own experience with his teacher Sri Yukteshwar: there is a greater reality behind this fleeting mirage we experience as our lives…and this eternal, perennial, undying divine origin…the world behind this one, the unified field that is the true ground state of our being. And it seems that those who have found a path to access that greater reality, leave behind the laws and rules of this one, namely: cause & effect!
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