Cause and effect, manifestation, the Bhagavad Gita, and Christ

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             The manifest is effect. Only the cause, which is sublime, can truly modify the manifest.

            The cause is One, the effect is divided. To deal in, or recognize only the manifest, the effect, is to exist in the pain of separation. This is vanity. To surrender, to allow the manifest to manifest, and thus to ease back effortlessly into the source, this is humility.

There is neither cause and effect, nor doership for the ego, the little self, or the microcosm, as it were. For cause and effect imply the ability to autonomously act ‘separately’ from the whole, which is impossible. And since the whole operates on a level beyond the ‘whims’ or ‘talents’ of the person, the individual cannot arrogate doership, nor any sense of cause and effect leading to results.

This point is continually outlined in the Bhagavad Gita, which compels one to ‘Give up the fruit of the actions’, for that is when one realizes one is not doing it, but it is doing one.

Similarly Christ exclaims, “I of myself can do nothing. I do the will of the Father.”

            This surrender of the little self, dissolving in the big Self, creates undivision and wholeness (Christ also said “I come from the undivided”).

            Hence, again, one says not “I am doing it”, but “It is doing me.”

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These fragments are taken from unpublished writings by Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.