Leading and led to: Synonyms?

Yes, often I am found to muse: Whether, that which leads to something and that something—the led to—are synonyms? In other words, are “cause” and “effect” synonyms? Because, without one, the other cannot be. Just as without a question an answer cannot get recognition as that that it gets, an answer!

The first time this query popped out of the kernel of consciousness was when I got led to the first line of (and) lyric 1 of Songs Offering by Rabindranath Tagore: “Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.”

The subsequent readings have evolved the initial reception, etching and evolving the perception in and as these lines (and in coming to this page, they won’t be verbatim, rather would be another evolved version!): Thou hast made me endless, as infinite is Thy humility, as Thou art Love Unconditional. Thou art all-giving, and in Thy giving lies Thy pleasure. Thy pleasure is Thy Graciousness…and all arising out of Thy infinite humility, because of That That Thou Art: All That There Is, Love Unconditional!

Since then, I am found to muse: Whether graciousness can be, in absence of humility? It is humility, leading to graciousness…and thus, the leading and the led to, co-existent, I am found to acknowledge as synonyms. And all because the ledger of consciousness registers all goodness as the germination of the Sole Reality, Love Unconditional, which, with Its infinite play has us musing, at times bemused and at times amused…yet every time, affirming: The cause enjoys a synonymous relation with the effect. The led to is there because of that that has led to it!

Sushmita,

August 13, 2017