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By Chirag Dangarwala<\/strong><\/p>\n Cause and Effect are the natural phenomenon in this material world. Every Cause is followed by an Effect and every Effect has a Cause.\u00a0 This phenomenon of cause and effect is explained in Vedic texts as well as in the modern science alike.\u00a0Newton’s law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction and similarly in Vedanta Sutra, the Cause and effect phenomenon is explained in great detail.\u00a0Knowing this truth, we generally tend to look at the cause and effects with our limited vision and blame or praise certain cause for the effects that we may enjoy or suffer during the course of our journey through life.\u00a0 For example, if we obtain something desirable, for instance, if we obtain a promotion, we give the credit to our boss and think that it is because of him alone that we are getting this raise, or some others\u00a0think that because of their performance\u00a0alone they are getting this promotion. Similarly when we obtain something undesirable or if someone has broken our heart, we tend to blame the other person of being the cause of this sorrow that we are getting. isvarah paramah krsnah \u00a0 Cause and Effect are the natural phenomenon in this material world. Every Cause is followed by an Effect and every Effect has a Cause.\u00a0 This phenomenon of cause and effect is explained in Vedic texts as well as in the modern science alike.\u00a0Newton’s law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction and similarly in Vedanta Sutra, the Cause and effect phenomenon is explained in great detail.\u00a0Knowing this truth, we generally tend to look at the cause and effects with our limited vision and blame or praise certain cause for the effects that we may enjoy or suffer during the course of our journey through life.\u00a0 For example, if we obtain something desirable, for instance, if we obtain a promotion, we give the credit to our boss and think that it is because of him alone that we are getting this raise, or some others\u00a0think that because of their performance\u00a0alone they are getting this promotion. Similarly when we obtain something undesirable or if someone has broken our heart, we tend to blame the other person of being the cause of this sorrow that we are getting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94462,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86519\/revisions\/94462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u00a0It indeed is true that our boss or our performance did play a significant role in getting us the promotion or the person who broke your heart certainly played a vital role in your sorrow. But they are not the causes of it; they merely are instruments through which we receive the so called sorrow or happiness.\u00a0They are the immediate causes that come to our mind for the effect we are experiencing.\u00a0Brahma Samihata\u00a0verse 5.1 explains that the cause of all causes is the supreme personality of Godhead Sri Krsna.<\/p>\n
\nsac-cid-ananda-vigrahah
\nanadir adir govindah
\nsarva-karana-karanam [ B.s. 5.1]\n\u00a0
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\n“Krsna who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.” <\/p>\n
\nWhat does it mean\u00a0when we say cause of all causes? Cause of all causes means that whatever we see in our purview is emanating from Lord Sri Krsna.\u00a0 So some may ask then what is the cause of Sri Krishna, that is why the verse mentions anadir adir govinda,\u00a0which means Govinda, or Lord Krsna is the cause of all causes but he has no cause he is svarat or independent. We the living entities have been conditioned by material nature to always think in terms of cause and effect within the limits of time. We do not have the conception of eternality. That is the reason we always think of everything as being born and everything will be destroyed, though this is true in connection to this material world, this is not true to a parallel existence beyond this material world which is called as spiritual world, though the information of the spiritual world is unknown to the modern science, nevertheless descriptions have been mentioned in the Vedic literatures regarding the nature and quality of the spiritual world. Lord\u00a0Sri Krishna briefly mentions about the spiritual world in the fifteenth chapter of Bhagavad-Gita as,
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\nna tad bhasayate suryo
\nna sasanko na pavakah
\nyad gatva na nivartante
\ntad dhama paramam mama [ B.g. 15.6]\n\u00a0
\n“That supreme abode of Mine is not illumined by the sun or moon, nor by fire or electricity. Those who reach it never return to this material world.”
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\nSo As per the verse in Brahma Samhita, Lord Sri Krsna is the supreme cause of all causes. That means whatever good or bad we receive in our lives has its root cause coming from Lord Sri Krishna. But of course that should not mean that we blame Krishna of everything that goes wrong in our lives and for whatever good we obtain we praise him a little but within we believe that we are the cause of that. Although the ultimate cause in\u00a0undoubtedly Lord Krishna, the respective happiness or sorrow which we receive in the material world is not his wish, whatever we received is based on our immediate cause, i.e. our actions. As per the law of Karma we shall reap what we sow, that is sure, but\u00a0the cause of that law is Lord Krishna, hence the cause of all causes is Lord Sri Krishna.
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\nWith a simple example we can explain the above facts. In today\u2019s modern world, advancement of technology and machinery is of a great amazement to common mass of people and often people, who are not well versed with science of God, conclude that man’s intelligence surpasses everyone and hence human intelligence can make everything possible, there are attempts to scientifically create life also, although they have not been successful. In short with advancement in technology modern man is trying to compete with God. This foolish proposition is a result of lack of knowledge about the greatness of God and ignorance of the fact that he is the cause of all causes. Even though man has become successful with much advancement in technology and science, but the prime questions is who the cause for developing human intelligence is. Certainly human beings have not developed intelligence in laboratories, moreover when the child is in mothers womb, the developments of the child\u00a0taking\u00a0place in mothers body in an organized manner at perfect times without any external assistance should convince any sane man on God’s wondrous and perfect workings. Exactly after 8 weeks child\u2019s hands and legs begin to form,\u00a0after a period of 9 months the baby is intelligent enough to know that\u00a0it is time for it to come out of the womb and makes attempts to break free.\u00a0 So the question may arise as to who is the cause of this intelligence?
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\n\u00a0The astonishing achievements in technology and machinery requires lot of material things, like computers require iron, plastic etc. we get all these from nature and nature is one of the energies of God as mentioned by Lord Sri Krishna himself in the Bhagavad-Gita . Hence the ultimate cause is Sri Krishna.
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\nmayadhyaksena prakrtih
\nsuyate sa-caracaram
\nhetunanena kaunteya
\njagad viparivartate [B.g. 9.10]\n\u00a0
\n” This material nature, which is one of My energies, is working under My direction, O son of Kunti, producing all moving and nonmoving beings. Under its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.”
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\nSo if one gets\u00a0a promotion or if someone breaks your heart, one must remember, that the person who has become an instrument in these effects is not the ultimate cause, though we appreciate their contribution, we must always remember the cause of all causes is Lord Sri Krishna. The so called happiness or sorrow that one receives in this world is result of our own activities, but it is comes to us in different ways and through different mediums,\u00a0And if one remembers always that Lord Sri Krishna is the enjoyer, proprietor and a very compassionate friend of all, one can understand that so called temporary happiness and sorrow of this world has no meaning. With the firm belief and trust\u00a0on the judgment of the most compassionate friend\u00a0Lord Sri Krishna, a person surrendered to the Lord takes every event of his life as a lesson knowing that\u00a0God, will always want good for him. Lord Sri Krishna Himself mentions this in the 5th chapter of Bhagavad-Gita
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\nbhoktaram yajna-tapasa
\nsarva-loka-mahesvaram
\nsuhrdam sarva-bhutanam
\njnatva mam santim rcchati [ B.g. 5.29]\n\u00a0
\n“A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attains peace from the pangs of material miseries.”
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\n\u00a0Further He concludes,
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\nsarva-dharman parityajya
\nmam ekam saranam vraja
\naham tvam sarva-papebhyo
\nmoksayisyami ma sucah\u00a0 [ B.g. 18.66]\n\u00a0
\n\u201cAbandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.”
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\nLike a concerned father in asks his sons and daughters to take shelter of him\u00a0unconditionally in love and he will save his devotee from all the dangers, and in the form of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Lord Sri Krishna Himself descended on this material world\u00a0500 years ago to show\u00a0the people in general who had misunderstood his instruction in Bhagavad-Gita,\u00a0on how to surrender to Krishna. To make things easy for the current fallen Age of Kali, he inaugurated the simplest form of process to surrender in love by chanting the holy names of God Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare\/ Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, which is joyfully performed by any kind of human being irrespective of caste, creed, sex, nationality, birth or status. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![](\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/xSwf9MF.jpg\")
By Chirag Dangarwala<\/strong><\/p>\n