Reap What You Sow

This way of life satisfies human being’s most profound and lofty aspirations. Yet it is able to the stress and strain of everyday life, besides giving the purpose of life. It does not instil fear in people. Good begets good and bad begets bad. Every action has its reaction. These are universal laws. This way of life fully agrees with these fundamental laws and people have to abide by them and reap what they sow.

People perpetrate evil deeds out of greed, anger and ignorance. Such shortcomings can only be overcome through self-realisation. The fortunes and misfortunes people experience in this world are not due to external influences but to the good and bad actions, words, deeds they themselves had previously committed. For this reasons, this teaching says, “We are the results of what we were and we will be the results of what we are”.

This means, we are totally responsible for everything that we have been doing in our life.

Forgiveness of sin is not acknowledged in this way of life. On is solely responsible for one’s own actions, good or bad. If one has committed evil deeds, one has to face up to the consequences. The only way to purge the mind of evil is to do good deeds. It is only through a long process of mental training that the mind could become purified.

This way of life teaches that death is not the end of life. A living being is just another bundle of energies holding elements together. The physical death of a being is just an interlude in the repeating cycle of birth and death. As such, a being not the same and not different continues to live, life after life, until the aim of live is finally attained.

According to this teaching, cause and effect play an essential part in our lives. In a cycle of cause and effect, a first cause is inconceivable for the cause ever becomes the effect and the effect in turn becomes the cause. Everything that exists are interdependent.