Duality of cause and effect.

This is no ordinary song; this is a spiritual manifesto. The message penetrates through generations, ages, sexes, geographies, cultures and religions.


This happens to be a sum total of all the teachings of various books I have read, all the religions of the world, organized or otherwise.

It is amazing how books from different topics, authors and genre end up giving the same message. The message of reaching a stage in self realization where you cannot differentiate between good or bad, pleasure and pain, day and night.

This realization comes after a long contemplation, observation and witness of cause and effect nature of things. The duality is inevitable. It is futile and in fact stupid to strive for good by avoiding bad. Good is the other side of the same coin which is bad. Just like death is to birth, night is to day, pain is to pleasure, riches is to poverty, ostentatious is to humble, the list goes on.



The only way to cease this cause and effect cycle is to go beyond it. Or in difficult to understand terminology, to ‘transcendent’ it (this energy) inwards

In not so difficult to understand lingo, it means concentrating on the process and forgetting about the outcome. It has been written in Geeta and people like Warren Buffet practice it daily (Irony intended).

Warren Once said, ‘We are willing to look foolish as long as we have not acted foolishly’. I realize the depth of this sentence. An open declaration that we judge our character though our actions and not our results

Anyone working with this outlook in life becomes a karma yogi. He does work for the sake of work itself. He strives for excellence and then lets it go.

Another interesting correlation can be made to the game of poker. To go through the life’s ups and downs with a Poker face (Poker face is a term used for an expression less face).

Your face and outlook should not give away what cards have been given to you by God, cosmos etc.

The only difference is that while poker face is a make shift arrangement, whereas self realization beyond the duality of cause and effect is a permanent blissful state of being.