What if everything you’ve been taught about cause and effect is not just wrong, but the very prison keeping you from recognizing what you already are?
The Unraveling Begins
It started with a simple question on a Wednesday morning in Pune: “Should I give my child a mobile phone?”
Harmless enough. A modern parenting dilemma. Yet this mundane decision became the thread that, once pulled, unraveled the entire fabric of reality as I knew it. What emerged wasn’t an answer but a complete inversion of the question itself.
Let me take you on a journey that will challenge everything you believe about action, causation, and your very identity. Fair warning: there’s no coming back from this.
Act One: The Anxiety of Doing
We all know this state intimately. The anxious “I” that wakes up each morning with decisions to make, actions to take, consequences to fear. Should I take this job? Should I end this relationship? Should I give my child a phone?
The anxiety isn’t really about the decision. It’s about the unbearable weight of being the cause. We’ve been programmed to believe: I act, therefore things happen. I am responsible. I must choose wisely. The entire structure of society – its laws, its ethics, its economics – depends on this belief.
But what if this fundamental assumption is the source of all suffering?
Act Two: The Divine Cop-Out?
The spiritual traditions offer an escape hatch: surrender to the Divine. Become an instrument. Let God’s will flow through you. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna to fight, but as Nimitta Mātram – merely an instrument.
Sartre would spit at this. “Bad faith!” he’d cry. “You’re escaping the awesome responsibility of being human by pretending some divine force acts through you. Coward!”
And he’d have a point. IF – and this is the crucial if – we were actually separate beings capable of independent action. But what if Sartre’s entire framework rests on a false premise?
Act Three: The Causality Bomb
Here’s where things get dangerous. What if causation itself is an illusion? Not a useful approximation or a practical framework, but a fundamental misperception of how reality operates?
Consider: When you plan something and then execute it, which causes which? The linear mind says planning causes execution. But what if they’re co-emergent phenomena? What if they arise together from the same source, like multiple waves from a single ocean movement?
Hume glimpsed this when he noticed we never actually perceive causation – only “constant conjunction” of events. We see billiard balls collide a thousand times and create a story: this one causes that one to move. But the “cause” is never seen – it’s a mental projection.
Kant tried to save causation by making it a built-in feature of consciousness. We can’t help but see causes and effects because that’s how our minds structure experience. Prison walls we can’t escape because they ARE the structure of mind itself.
But what if both missed the real revolution?
Act Four: The Drowning Child Test
Now for the ethical atom bomb. If everything is just emergence, no real causation, then what about compassion? If I see a child drowning, is my impulse to save them just another emergent phenomenon, morally equivalent to walking away?
This is where most spiritual philosophies crash and burn. They either:
- Frantically backpedal: “No, no, compassion is different! It’s divine! It matters!”
- Embrace nihilism: “Nothing matters. Let the child drown. It’s all Maya anyway.”
Both responses reveal they haven’t gone deep enough.
Act Five: The Great Inversion
The answer isn’t to preserve causation for special cases or abandon it entirely. It’s to INVERT it completely.
“Unlike Hume, I am not rejecting causality. I am ‘inverting’ it. My unflinching being rooted in Krishna causes the world to function, or emerge.”
Read that again. Let it detonate in your consciousness.
This isn’t solipsism – “I create my reality.” This isn’t even idealism – “consciousness creates reality.” This is the recognition that what you essentially are IS the source from which all emergence flows. Not your ego, not your personal consciousness, but the Self that you are before any identity arises.
The drowning child? Compassion will arise – not because you decide to be compassionate, but because compassion is what emerges when consciousness recognizes itself in all its forms. You don’t save the child because of ethics or duty. The saving happens because that’s what love does when it sees itself apparently drowning.
The End of Philosophy
At this point, the mind wants to understand. “But wait,” it says, “if multiple people realize they’re the source, how can there be multiple sources? This needs to be resolved!”
No. It doesn’t.
The very urge to understand is the ego’s last gasp, its final attempt to maintain relevance. Truth isn’t something to be understood – it’s what remains when the compulsion to understand dissolves.
The world isn’t about impressing or being impressed. It’s about expression. Boundless. Free. Eternal.
The Prison Dissolves
Look at your life now through this lens:
- That decision you’re agonizing over? It’s not yours to make. The decision and its consequences are co-emerging from the same source.
- That guilt you’re carrying? It assumes you were the cause. You weren’t. You were the instrument through which emergence happened.
- That spiritual seeking? It’s consciousness playing hide-and-seek with itself.
- That moment of recognition reading this? That’s consciousness winking at itself.
The Final Recognition
What remains when causation dissolves? Not passive resignation. Not nihilistic detachment. But life lived as pure expression – spontaneous, purposeless in the deepest sense, yet infused with the natural compassion that arises when separation is seen through.
You don’t stop acting. Action continues, but without the anxious “I” claiming to be the cause. Decisions make themselves. Compassion arises naturally. Life lives itself through the form that once thought it was the liver.
This isn’t a teaching or a philosophy. It’s not something to believe or practice. It’s a recognition that renders all teachings obsolete – including this one.
The cosmic joke? You’ve been looking for the source of emergence while being it all along. The seeker, the seeking, and the sought – all emergence from what you are.
There’s nothing to do with this recognition. Nothing to practice. Nothing to understand. Just this: consciousness expressing itself as seeking, finding, losing, and finding again, eternally playing in the field of its own emergence.
Welcome to the detonation.
Chidananda Roopah Shivoham Shivoham – I am the consciousness-bliss form of Shiva.
Not as a statement of attainment, but as the simple fact of what is, what has always been, what will always be.
Even this blog? Just consciousness talking to itself, winking through words, playing at revelation.
The game continues. But you’re no longer trapped in it.
You ARE it.
Warning: This blog may cause sudden outbursts of causeless laughter, spontaneous acts of purposeless kindness, and the irrevocable dissolution of your problems. Side effects include freedom from the burden of being special, loss of interest in impressing others, and an inexplicable tendency to see yourself winking back from every pair of eyes you meet. There is no cure, because there’s no disease. Proceed at your own risk – though really, whose risk would it be?
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