Time, space, and causation are like the glass through which the Absolute is seen, and when it is seen on the lower side, It appears as the universe. ...In the Absolute there is neither time, space, or causation. The idea of time cannot be there, seeing there is no mind, no thought. The idea of space cannot be there, seeing there is no external change. What you call motion and causation cannot exist where there is only One....
What we call causation begins after, if we may be permitted to say so, the degeneration of the Absolute into the phenomenal, and not before; that our will, our desire and all these things always come after that.
Vivekananda (2.5 Jnana Yoga; Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Kindle Edition)
Cause comes after Effect and not before?
Now that is something to think about. We think our will causes things to happen...move...but here we are being told that will is not the cause of things happening. According to the ancient Advaita, phenomena is already in motion when we desire something or will it to be so?
Blow the mind!
All is well
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