It’s a quite gradual process to be comprehended and practiced. Our life is a matter of laws of nature. Change is nature’s law. We are either moving forward or we are going backward. We are always in either generating or degenerating state. We take our life in an awfully casual way, rising of sun every morning or safely reaching home in the evening is very insignificant for each one of us. Imagine one damn day, the sun discontinues being at work or while driving home you smash.

My point is to drag your attention to one of the rudimentary law of nature. The law of action and reaction. In this evolving world we are merely reacting in our states. There is a very small scope for really acting. Most of us see, listen and exist but unable to observe, understand and live it. A seed, if it is not planted in the earth to create, disintegrates. Change is inevitable. It is going to happen whether you like it or not. All progress is change but all change is not progress. We must evaluate change and accept it only if it makes sense. Acceptance without evaluation amounts to conforming behavior, a sign of lack of confidence and low self esteem.

In Hindu and Buddhist philosophies the theory of karma harps on the Newtonian principle that every action produces an equal and opposite reaction. As we go about our daily lives, in every single moment, we make causes in the things that we think and say and do, which in time will bear its corresponding effects. And this cyclical cause and effect generates the concepts of birth and reincarnation. The ancient scriptures explains that when we make a cause, the anticipated effect of that cause is stored deep in our lives, and when the right circumstances appear then we experience the effect.

In order to succeed, we need to understand the law of cause and effect and the relationship between actions and results. For every effect, there is a cause. The law of cause and effect is the same as the law of sowing and reaping. The laws of sowing and reaping are simple, you must have the desire to sow. Desire is the starting point. What you sow, so shall you reap. If you sow potatoes, you are only going to reap potatoes, not tomatoes. You must sow before you reap. Sowing takes place before reaping; you must give before you get. You cannot expect the fireplace to give heat before you put in the fuel. Some people are constantly looking to get before they give. It does not work this way. When you sow a seed, you reap manifold. If you sow a positive seed, your harvest will be manifold in the positive and, if you sow a negative seed your harvest will be manifold in the negative. It is not uncommon to see people going against nature’s law.

A farmer knows that you cannot sow and reap in the same day. There is always a period of development. Most of the time people are trying to change the effect while the cause remains. Either you constantly feed your mind with positives or negativity automatically fills the vacuum. Many ancient sages have said, a man’s mind is like a garden. If we plant good seeds, we will have a good garden. But if we don’t plant anything, something will grow and that will be weeds. That is the law of nature. The same holds true in our lives.

In fact, this is the way the law of nature works. Our thoughts are causes. You sow a thought, you reap an action. You sow an action, you reap a habit. You sow a habit, you reap a character. You sow a character, you reap a destiny. It all starts with a single thought.

In the concluding minute I just remember the following quote from –Albert Einstein, “Every time I closely watch the laws of Physics I go even closer to Metaphysics.”