Deepest Laws – In Gita Verse 10.1 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Listen again, O mighty-armed Arjuna. Because you are My dear friend, for your benefit I shall speak to you further, giving knowledge that is better than what I have already explained.
Krishna can see that Arjuna is not only listening to what he is saying but also preparing himself to act on what Krishna is saying. So Krishna says that – giving knowledge that is better than what I have already explained.
From your own life experience, you will recall that unless you have finished learning the standard in which you are then only you will be eligible for the next standard for better and more detailed learning.
What Krishna is preparing Arjuna for is the Knowledge which cannot be taught but you have to learn. It’s not only difficult for the master but also for a disciple. As this knowledge is knowledge of action. From where you act, it’s not about your action but your actions come from where? What fragrance is there in your action that makes the difference.
One of the deepest laws of life. You may not have thought about it at all. You have heard – the whole of science depends on it – that cause and effect is the base. You create the cause and the effect follows. Life is a causal link. You put the seed in the soil and it will sprout. If the cause is there, then the tree will follow. The fire is there: you put your hand in it and it will burn. The cause is there and the effect will follow. You take poison and you will die. You arrange for the cause and then the effect follows.
This is one of the most basic scientific laws, that cause and effect is the innermost link of all processes of life. Religion knows about a second law which is still deeper than this. But the second law which is deeper than this will look absurd if you don’t know it and don’t experiment with it.
Religion says: Produce the effect and the cause follows. This is absolutely absurd in scientific terms. Science says: If the cause is there, the effect follows. Religion says the converse is also true: you create the effect, and see: the cause follows.
There is a situation in which you feel happy. A friend has come, a beloved has called. A situation is the cause – you feel happy. Happiness is the effect. The coming of the beloved is the cause. Religion says: Be happy and the beloved comes. Create the effect and the cause follows.
Jesus says the same thing in different words: Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, then all else will follow. But the Kingdom of God is the end, the effect. Seek ye first the end – the end means the effect, the result – and the cause will follow. This is as it should be.
It is not only that you place a seed in the soil and the tree follows; let there be a tree and there are millions of seeds. If the cause is followed by the effect, the effect is again followed by the cause. This is the chain! Then it becomes a circle – start from anywhere, create the cause or create the effect.
I tell you, it is easier to create the effect because the effect depends totally upon you; the cause may not be so dependent on you. If I say I can only be happy when a certain friend is there, then it depends on a certain friend, whether he is there or not. If I say I cannot be happy until I attain this much wealth, then it depends on the whole world and the economic situations and everything. It may not happen, and then I cannot be happy.
The cause is beyond me. The effect is within me. The cause is in the surroundings, in the situations – the cause is without. The effect is me! If I can create the effect, the cause will follow.
Choose happiness – that means you are choosing the effect – and then see what happens. Choose ecstasy and see what happens. Choose to be blissful and see what happens. Your whole life will change immediately and you will see miracles happening around you…because now you have created the effect and causes will have to follow.
When you have to learn which cannot be taught means you have to choose the effect and act accordingly. In case of Arjuna effect is Fight Without Enmity. When Krishna is guiding Arjuna through various paths he needs sharp intelligence that my actions can bring this result. From where I need to act. What was my interiarity at that time and how to be alert about it. Whether my interiarity is caught up with any of my identity, emotion or it is pure space. Unless it is pure space he cannot fight the war without enmity.
Krishna can see certain change and maturity in Arjuna. So now he is giving him knowledge that is better than what he has already explained.
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