When our family home was in London, one of my early teachers was Khambatta; a man in his sixties with white hair swept back, a penetrating look in his eyes and a mole on his chin.
One morning, on the day I turned fifteen, Khambatta prepared me for his daily talk about why love is all there is.
Simple, harsh yet beautiful is what I have you today, he said, in his usual measured tones.
There is an essential law behind and within all manifestation, he continued.
“Action and reaction is opposite and equal.”
As you sow, so shall you reap is another way of putting it, he explained. Then he delivered three sentences that tore up my thinking at the time.
“Within this apparent simplicity there are aeons of subtleties. These descriptions of the law form the practical essence of all philosophy and religion. In fact anything outside of amplifying this single truth in all religion is mere mind-fodder, without lasting value. Consign it to the dustbin.”
Harsh? He’d just condemned millions of words spoken and written through ages.
“An ounce of logic would tell you that all else results only in complication, confusion and even violence. All man made. No god to blame here.
“Only that which does not change with the changing times is real truth; all else is temporary information, and has limited value.”
“Action and reaction is opposite and equal,” he repeated. “This truth makes the power of love supreme.”
If we allowed this to permeate our lives - only good things can come our way.
This truth also has responsibility and control in our laps, always. No god, person or external circumstance can be blamed. Every attempt at blame weakens our own will-power to influence our own lives. Put another way:
Do as you would be done by.
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