The Law of Cause and Effect

by Tom Payne

The most profound of all the Universal Laws is the Law of Cause and Effect. We all
know it, or know of it, but may have discarded the principle as Biblical or old fashioned.
But yet it dramatically affects our every waking-moment!

The Law of Cause and Effect states that; ’for every current effect in your life, there has
been a specific cause. Every thought and every action generates a force of energy that
returns to us in like kind. What we sow is what we reap.’

The Law of Cause and Effect is an absolute, ironclad law of the universe. Everything
happens for a reason, through and by immutable law; whether we know, understand or
even accept the law. There are no accidents, no good luck and no bad luck. We live in
a universe governed by rigid, uncompromising laws. You can’t change it this law, cheat
it or deceive it. It will operate regardless of your attitude to it.

Comply by the law and you’ll find success and happiness; defy or ignore it and you
won’t! It’s that profound, and yet that simple.

Jesus, the Bhudda, Mohamed, and all the other great philosophers taught the law. It’s
throughout the Bible, it’s taught in the Bhagavad-Gita and the ancient scriptures every
culture. The law applies in all three areas of your life; your physical world, your mental
world and your spiritual world.

For every action there is an appropriate re-action! If you slap your hand against a
table, the table reacts with a slap against your hand. If you plant wheat, the ground
responds by giving you wheat back, but if you plant weeds you also get more weeds in
return.

In a similar way, if you abuse or misuse another human-being, if you steal and cheat
your way through life, if you ignore the starving millions, the law of Cause and Effect
guarantees a reaction sometime in this life or the next. Someone will abuse or misuse
you, or steal from you, or you’ll go hungry.