Real World is Beyond the Mind

[Guest guest]

Q: On several occasions the question has been raised as to whether

the universe is subject to the law of causation,or does it exist and

function outside the law? You seem to hold the view that it is

uncaused, that everything, however small, is uncaused, arising and

disappearing for no know reason whatsoever.

 

M: Causation means succession in time of events in space, the space

being physical or metal. Time, space, causation are mental categories,

arising and subsiding with the mind.

 

Q: As long as the mind operates, causation is a valid law.

 

M: Like everything mental, the so-called law of causation contradicts

itself. No thing in existence has a particular cause; the entire

universe contributes to the existence of even the smallest thing;

nothing could be as it is without the universe being what it is. When

the source and ground of everything is the only cause of everything,

to speak of causality as a universal law is wrong. The universe is not

bound by it content, because its potentialities are infinite; besides

it is a manifestation, or expression of a principle fundamentally and

totally free.

 

Q: Yes, one can see that ultimately to speak of one thing being the

only cause of another thing is altogether wrong. Yet, in actual life

we invariably initiate action with a view to a result.

 

M: Yes, there is a lot of such activity going on, because of

ignorance. Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire

universe makes it happen, they would but achieve much more with less

expenditure of energy.

 

Q: If everything is an expression of the totality of causes, how can

we talk of a purposeful action towards and achievement?

 

M: The very urge to achieve is also an expression of the total

universe. It merely shows that the energy potential has risen at a

particular point. It is the illusion of time that makes you talk of

causality.

 

When the past and future are seen in the timeless now, as parts of a

common pattern, the idea of cause-effect loses its validity and

creative freedom takes place.

 

Q: Yet, I cannot see how anything can come to be without a cause.

 

M: What is say a thing is without a cause, I mean it can be without a

particular cause. Your own mother was not needed to give you birth;

you could have been born from some other woman. But you could not have

been born without the sun and the earth.

 

Even these could not have caused your birth without the most important

factor; you own desire to be born. It is desire that gives birth, that

gives name and form. The desirable is imagined and wanted and

manifests itself as something tangible or conceivable. Thus is created

the world in which we live, or personal world. The real world is

beyond the mind's ken; we see it through the net of our desires,

divided into pleasure and pain, right and wrong, inner and outer. To

see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net. It is not

hard to do so, for the net is full of holes.

 

Q: What do you mean holes? And how to find them?

 

M: Look at the net and its many contradictions. You do and undo at

every step. You want peace, love, happiness and work hard to create

pain, hatred and war. You want longevity and overeat, you want

friendship and exploit. See your net as made of such contradictions

and remove them- your very seeing them will make them go.

 

Q: Since my seeing the contradiction makes it go, it there no

causal ling between my seeing and its going?

 

M: Causality, even as a concept, does not apply to chaos.

 

Q: To what extent is desire a causal factor?

 

M: One of the many. For everything there are innumerable causal

factors. But the source of all that is, is the Infinite Possibility,

the Supreme Reality, which is in you and which throws its power and

light and love on every experience. But, this source is not a cause

and no cause is a source. Because of that, I say everything is

uncaused. You may try to trace how a thing happens, but you cannot

find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is, because

the universe is as it is.