There is no one answer to anything!

Everything that happens in the world is visible by the effect it creates. And wherever there is an effect there has to be a cause.   

The world as it is – the effect

At the level of the world, there is chaos and order, there are united and divided minds, there are wars,  there is rescue, torture,  altruism,  famines, abundant food,  hate and love all entwined together. Sometimes hate leads to love of some sort, famine leads to a growth at another level, torture creates altruism, war leads to peace and peace back to war…opposite situations work in very magical way but not always- there is no one common pattern that stands one out from other.

At the level of families- it is similar, happy times, sad times, death, birth, fall out with family and then back together, shame, glory etc.  Poverty may make children of that family work harder, comfort may bring misery…. opposites work in a very magical way. At the level of a single human being we proceed as waves of thoughts arising, subsiding, arising, subsiding and this continues throughout our life; our downfalls make us want to work more, our good times make us go slack…. opposite situations work in very magical way.  However not always, sometimes it leads to a great downfall of a family, person of a country!

What comes out clearly in all this is very similar to Newtonian Physics of effect seen clearly and cause inherent in the effect. Newtonian Physics can very well explain the cause of many events but then it fails at quantum level. "Jack died when he jumped from a 5 story building not because of flow of gravity but because he was stopped by gravity" is well explained cause, however not all causes are that straightforward. The subtle Universe of Quantum Physics, Gravity waves, Interpretation of Universe is not understood- who knows why we see the effects of what we see?

The subtle cause?

Whether is is Physics at subtle level or situations of world , the cause is never very clear.   Usually people think of the immediate cause of a world disaster but the cause behind the cause behind the cause behind the cause- the very first cause that may go centuries back – the way the mind is can never be pinpointed at clearly. 

Not only at the macro cosmic level even at the level of a person, the way a person is –her personality and the effects of her personality are visible, the situations she creates are visible but the cause of why someone is the way she is cannot be comprehended as a result of events created by him or her. The cause could be so deep and so "evented" at a far back time may be back to womb, to mother and may be to another life ( if we think that there is one) that it is impossible to lay finger on it.

Cause and Effect- Effect is gross and visible, Cause is subtle and not visible

Then is there no answer to why we are the way we are- the cause of the world’s socio economic structure, world hunger etc ? There are many answers some completely contradictory and some complementary, but there is no one answer. Is it because of the fact that the "subtleness" of cause is the result of how we interpret anything?  All analyses are our interpretations and in any interpretation the thinker or the observer becomes important. Whereas the effects are visible – so gross that anyone can become aware of these. It needs only the event to happen.

The only thing that we can do it to become seer, an observer and not seen.  If we watch ourselves detached we may be able to see our own self so clearly – the swing that we ourselves are in our own way of thinking from one end to another of varying amplitude that we may  realize that the cause of anything is really impossible to gauge. In that realization lies our wisdom!

I love this interpretation of Universe: This universe, according to the theory of the philosophers, proceeds in the form of waves; it rises, and again it subsides, melts away, as it were; then again it proceeds out in all this variety; then again it slowly returns. So it goes on like a pulsation.