BE THE EFFECT - AND THE CAUSE WILL FOLLOW!“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery “I will tell you a Spiritual Secret: be the cause and the effect will follow; but let me tell you an even deeper spiritual secret: Be the effect and the cause will follow!” The first secret simply outlines that we are the cause - not some outside other, fate or god. We can call this ‘cause’ our thinking, feeling, focus, which reflects as outer effects; we can view it as our energy field which attracts like-wise effects; or we can call it karma - what we have chosen to explore, experience and expand and thus meet as outer effects. Now let’s explore the second deeper secret of ‘Be the effect and the cause will follow’! Initially linear minds resist this, but if you view it through the macrocosm you can see it everywhere: God already is All That Is, and only 'becomes'- bursts out indeed into infinite causes - to experience Self! You and I choose to be born and explore certain aspects of self and are thus birthed into that time and space coordinate which provides all that we require as causes! In more mundane terms, evenings with friends is the joy of being together (effect) and thus are activities (causes) - a movie, a game, a meal - put in as causes to enable that! All healing is indeed this - inner resolution has taken place (effect) and the outer treatment comes along as the cause! Observe how goals always come first, and then you come into the past of that projected future, and put in the required steps! You target to excel in your exams (the effect) and thus you study (the cause.) And when your goal or intent is strong, when you are being the effect, the causes happen more easily! View positive thinking and visualization in these terms. You are being the effect in feeling, thinking, speaking and emoting from the end-result having already happened - and thus does the cause come about! However truly being the effect, entails ‘belief’… something that is your ‘truth’... that which you resonate to energetically not intellectually! There is an anecdote of a man dismayed by losses, receiving quite miraculously, a cheque for a million dollars from a stranger he befriends in a pub. He puts into action all his dreams; never using that cheque, ‘knowing’ the money is there when required! Soon he has made more than that million, and revisits the pub to return the cheque, but discovers that the ‘rich’ stranger is really a poor inmate of an asylum… and well known in the pub for this prank! But the belief of having the money was important! That man believed he had a million dollars! 'Belief'... something you resonate too beyond intellectual understanding is truly being the effect! And this is what ‘gyan’ or mind-expansion is all about - expanding our beliefs… or effects! As our truths expand, and we recognize that we are indeed loving, abundant, joyful creators, do we allow the causes to unfurl! This is also the secret behind so-called spiritual qualities: they are all ‘being’ an expanded effect’! Gratitude is being the effect of thankfulness, thus causing more to be thankful about! Abiding in appreciation causes more to be appreciative about! When forgiveness is not an occasional act but a state of being and the understanding that there is nothing/no one to blame, creates nothing or no one to blame! Through non-judgment, you become the effect of being witness, and thus labels and their rollercoaster’s move away from your life! In Generosity you share freely and thus cause more to share! Symbols - be they mantra’s or archetypes (tarot or other) are also a beautiful embodying of the effect… from which causes arise. In meditation we are tapping experientially into joy, love, bliss and centeredness of Godself… we are being the effect in the purest of ways and thereby do grounds for these states spontaneously come about. Be the effect… of all that you wish for and allow the causes to unfurl! And do not forget action! For truly being the effect is most powerfully present in action! Action is indeed a subconscious response of belief… of being the effect! Think, feel, emote and act from that end of the continuum and the path will be made much easier for you! Introspection for today: Wherever you feel stuck: ask yourself: are you being the effect? APPENDIX - HOW THIS WRITING CAME ABOUT - AND THE LONGER UNEDITED VERSION FROM THE DISCOURSE IN, WHICH THIS AROSE:
I’m going to share a very beautiful thought with you…beautiful in its very simplicity in giving us one more view at all that we already know- and yet a very powerful perspective! This sort of clicked in mind one day as I was reading an anecdote sent on - line as a forward: It was about this man who was down and out and had no money and he didn’t know what to do. Somebody came along in the park dressed very well with a tie and a coat, and he spoke to him and that man said ‘I’m Rockefeller (or whatever), and gave him a cheque for a million dollars. This guy was very happy with those million dollars - and having that with him he went about doing what he had always wanted to… and yet not using the million dollars… he didn’t use the money, but just knowing that he had those million dollars made all the difference. As his own work picked and he soon made more than a million dollars, he felt the thankfulness to return the cheque intact, to his kind benefactor. However on reaching the place - he found to his surprise it was an asylum – and the watch man was amusedly informing him how this who man claims to be Rockefeller all the time is actually an inmate without any money… (detailed anecdote attached below.) And even as I read that and looked up - I looked straight into a calendar I have made with quotes and masters and tarot cards- and the words - Osho’s - stared out at me:‘I’ll tell you a Spiritual Secret, Be the cause and the effect will follow; but I’ll tell you an even deeper spiritual secret, Be the effect and the cause will follow…” And it all started to click right there and then! In fact I was eating a salad at that point and going through the gnosis that if I am eating the salad enjoying the effect - all the causes to make this happen - must’ve been put into place already! And out of these three things - the online joke, the quote and the act of enjoying my salad this took on a humongous understanding for me… made a huge impact… and as it usually happens I ‘then’ saw /see it all around me…! We all know the first part already so I will not dwell on it at depth- but in brief: be the cause and the effect will follow is only telling us we are the cause-not some outside other or god. We can call this cause (that we are): our thinking, feeling, focus, which reflects as the outer effects; we can even view it as our energy field which attracts like-wise effects; or we can call it karma - our learning - or what we have chosen to explore and experience and which we thus meet as outer effects. The only difference in ‘karma’ and our thoughts and feelings is that we use word karma to denote those thoughts feelings and energy signatures that we have brought over from ‘another’ lifetime…! But in the larger picture they are one and the same in terms of effects - as they- thoughts feelings and energy signatures of this or another life - are what create the effect of our current realties. However as we journey along towards Self… we come across a deeper implication… “Be the effect and the cause will follow!” Initially your linear minds may resist this, but if you view it through the larger picture... the macrocosm… you can see it everywhere: - God self already is All That Is - and only 'becomes' - bursts out indeed – into a zillion causes to experience Self! - You and I choose to be born... and explore a certain aspect and require a certain backdrop and time and space coordinate… and thus our parents desire a child and mothers get pregnant… and we are born into ‘that’ time… say 5.34 PM 24th March 1958… for all that we require as causes! - Nature chooses to experience itself and seeds are created! - Friends are the love and joy of being together (effect) and thus play a game (Cause) to enjoy it more! - In more practical terms we can see this in healing as all healing is this – the inner resolution/healing has taken place or effected and the outer comes along as the cause to complete this! - And in more day-to-day terms - the goal, the effect, always comes first and you and team universe then puts in the causes! You choose to excel in your exams (the effect) and thus you study (the cause!) All goals are current projections into the future, so the effect comes first. I first intent I want the effect of doing well in my exams, and then I come into the past of that goal, and put in the steps. And when your goal or your intent is strong, when you are being the effect… the causes happen… and if your goal /intent is not strong… when you are not coming from the effect… the causes don’t happen quite so easily! See it in small ways - you were the effect of coming for this class/meeting before you ‘came’… and the causes happened didn’t they? Since this understanding I have been closely observing self… because I like to experience what I am ‘learning’… I have been on the alert to ‘real’-ize this understanding into knowing… and I observed it in going to the gym! I have joined a gym and most of you know I’m a little lazy about that. So I know when my goal, my intent, when the effect is strong, I some how land up in the gym. And I know the day when the intent is little loose, I’m not being the effect; I somehow don’t go! So of course there are many, many examples try and view your own… This further comes alive when we view it through ‘positive thinking and visualization’ that we all know so much about (and it is interesting to view positive thinking and visualization through this angle too!) For in positive thinking and visualization, what we are really doing, is being the effect. You visualize, speak, feel, think, focus... as it already having happened- with the accompanying emotion…, which is … being the effect! And thus the cause always follows, as the means to what you already 'are' without bothering about the causes- the how’s - which then just come about! If you are not being the effect, it is not true belief or positive thinking and we wonder why we are not manifesting! Very often we say we are doing positive thinking, we are doing visualization and complain it’s not happening and I now realize that we are not really being the effect. There is a gap, because the fact that I need to do positive thinking means I don’t believe it. I don’t say, I’m Divyaa, I’m Divyaa, I’m a woman, but I have to say I’m slim. So truly being the effect is your belief. Belief is being the effect! That man believed he had a million dollars! Visualization, positive thinking is not to be thrown out however as it is one more way of making something a belief! And then the biggie suddenly struck me! That this is what we are doing through all these channelings, classes, gyan, satsangs, books… mind expansion… we are We are arriving at expanded beliefs… we are actually enhancing or incorporating our effects. All of us here realized, through channeling, or satsangs or classes or whatever means… that ‘I am God’, the effect came first, and so now all the causes of being God are coming along. All of us realized that ‘I am abundance’ and as the belief took effect the causes are happening! So many expanded truths have become our beliefs, the effects… we have discovered Self… and now the causes… the journey towards is only unfurling! So if you think about what do all these classes, gyan, satsangs, books really do… they are really jumping us to the effect so automatically all the causes must be! Of course, one can see this in all spiritual qualities or so called must do’s, because they truly are what I call optimal focus - being in the present, focus on the positive, acknowledgement I have created whatever is outside and thus focus is on being creator… and now I realize they are all ‘being the effect’! Gratitude is easily recognizable as actually being the effect- whether thankful for the past or as for we know here we can be thankful for ‘future’ events also - You are embodying the effect of and so the causes come. Appreciation is being the effect in big ways… remembers perception is an act of creation - so if I am being appreciative the causes to appreciate must be! Do view for self how forgiveness encompasses this effect… when I believe there is nothing to forgive/blame then accordingly there is nothing left to forgive! Through non-judgment, you become the effect of being witness and - and then the labels and their ups and downs move away from your life! Generosity… means the abundance is already present deep within… This brings us to Symbols - another beautiful way of being the effect! Because whenever you are using a symbol, whether it’s a picture of Gods and Masters, a Tarot, archetype, Zodiac sign, mantras, you are actually embodying the effect. You are embodying the energy of the effect and the causes must come. Think in day to day analogies - If the song is playing on your radio the music ‘would’ be written… if the movie is running on yr TV screen… the shooting stage is already over! The same thing happens with meditation very powerfully. In meditation we are tapping experientially into what we actually ‘know’, we are tapping into joy, love, bliss or stillness of god self… we are being the effect in pure energy terms and the causes spontaneously come. And what does this really mean in here and now terms? We all know that we must think, feel, emote positively… but actually… in being the effect action must also be present. Thus in real terms what this means is BE the effect you desire - feel, think, emote, act from that end of the continuum! And the cause... the means... will be! Action is true belief... action is being the effect! So next time you say my manifestation is not working... think! Are you being the effect? Are you taking those actions? A lot of us have become experts in ‘doing’ positive thinking towards manifesting things, thinking I’ve conquered – I don’t like the word ‘conquered’… so let me say ‘over come’ any particular issue, but if the action is not aligned with that, that means it hasn’t actually taken place. Quote Ramtha: ‘The question is not what reality is? But what reality do you choose to be?’ And I choose to be the reality of the effect let the causes come the way they want to. So dearest friends, be the reality: think, feel, emote and act from that 'space'. I think all of us have seen the movie ‘Secret’? There was this scene where this American woman is manifesting a husband, and she suddenly realized that she has been doing all the right positive thinking, manifestation, visualization, but when she drives into her apartment, she hasn’t made parking space for this husband. When I read this book, I said ‘so silly’, but now with all this its importance actually registered! And that triggered of some personal examples as thought to highlight the point to me… I had gone to America, for my daughter’s graduation, and had the good fortune, to be up-graded to a suite. But we were told the suite would be only for few days and then we would need to shift back to the regular room which we had booked for our ten day stay! So I started ‘manifesting’ this suite, telling Mayank not to worry for I was manifesting it! And everyday we would be told uhuh the suite could not be extended… and ‘I’m sort of wondering when it will happen, as it was coming close to the third day and I was so sure I was manifesting it!! And then I realized I had not even unpacked my suitcase…! And I’m a person who actually unpacks and arranges my entire suitcase into the cupboard, and thus where was the belief in my manifestation? Where was being the effect? And even as I did unpack and spread out my stuff like I would for a ten day stay… the very next morning as 6 am… as I went down for an early breakfast… she said ‘maam’, you got the suite’ for the stay! Another deeper example that comes to mind - when I first read Seth, I knew immediately I wanted to reach out to people with its message and that I wanted to channel! I thought, felt, imagined, spoke, and ate indeed this effect! I would get up at 3 am… and ‘link’ to Seth without quite knowing what why how…even was I?! I would write articles… and speak about it with my closest friends…being the effect I guess on hindsight! And soon the causes came… more and more people interested in listening… Tuesdays…! Beloved Jade Fire group… channeling training… being made a leader and sitting on the platform and channeling/speaking…starting personal sessions… and I realize now if I had ‘waited’ for when I was ready to speak or channel or reach out… the causes would not have come… I would be still doing positive thinking about it! This also will help us understand ‘fake it till you make it’ better. A lot of us use this, but faking does not mean faking the effect…or the feeling I am trying to be…for example if I have a mother-in-law with whom I have an issue, I don’t have to fake the feeling, I have to BE the effect of loving, accepting…whatever it is… with her. I can’t put on an act, I can’t say OK, I’m faking it till it happens, so I’m hugging her, and embracing her and in my mind I’m calling her a bitch - that won’t work. At least for that moment, I need to tap into the effect, I need to tap into some love that I must have had for her, or another…or use a symbol… but need must tap into ‘love’… because if I can be the effect, the causes will really come. What I am really faking is the causes! Not the effect! So think about all of this dearest friends, because this has really mushroomed in my mind and while it is still growing in its many implications... I see its message in so many places or words or quotes... wherever I’m finding my biggest hurdles… I say Ok, ‘Be the effect, divyaa’ in thinking, feeling, and of course action and the causes must come. I will end with a very beautiful story: There was this king, who used to hire this sculptor, to carve incredibly extraordinary elephant statues out of these rocks- and when the king once asked him “how do you do all this, from these lumps of rocks, how do you shape these magnificent elephants?” the sculptor replies that he doesn’t really do anything- he only at first glimpses the elephant within the rock… and then his chisel automatically removes everything else…! So again view being the effect in this story… and dearest friends… ‘Be the effect and the causes will follow’! Be all that we have learnt through over the years… in thought and feeling and action… mind and heart and body... and the path will be made much easier for us. | 
