Thursday, December 4, 2008

The Law of Cause and Effect

The idea of writing this came to me when I was flipping through pages of random books and by change stuck at the Aristotelian Principle of Causality, or what we today call the Law of Cause and Effect.
When people believed anything which they can not understand is GOD, to amuse them and put a period on further thinking, Aristotle stated something completely different. It changed our view of the world forever. 
Everything happens for a reason; for every effect there is a specific cause. 
Aristotle postulated that we live in a world which is governed by Laws and not by mere chance.  Everything happens for reason weather we understand it or not.  Many times we come to know the reason long after the effect. He said that every effect has a specific cause or causes. Every cause or action has an effect of some kind or another, whether we can see it, or whether we like it or not. 
This law is equally applicable on achievement, wealth, happiness, and prosperity and business success. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
This is referred to in the Bible as the Law of Sowing and Reaping which says that, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that also shall he reap." 
Sir Isaac Newton called it the third Law of motion. He said, "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." 
For us it can be like “As we think, so are we”. Thoughts are the cause and the primary creative forces in humans. We create the entire world by thinking and then slowly we are in that.