Dharma maintainsequilibrium between them. By maintaining equilibrium between opposing cosmic for ces, dharma safeguards existence and upholds the path of evolution, the path of righteousness. From the most quiet, transcendental level, nature performs, and it performs within itself. It is the self-referral activity of natural law that is responsible for absolute order in creation. . . . It is the most refined level of quantum-mechanical activity of nature, from where absolute orderliness controls, commands, and governs all affairs of the universe. . . .
Natural law is always powerful, and every natural law has two sides to it, creative and destructive.
In balancing the two processes of creation and destruction, natural law promotes evolution. The concept of the self-referral functioning of natural law and its role in maintaining balance in nature is discussed in more detail below. Dharma operates according to this principle in a completely set and automatic way, like a machine, its output determined by its input. In the same way, when evil increases in life and the negative forces predominate, the power of dharma, restoring the balance, produces sensations of pain and suffering. Maharishi emphasizes that the increase of good or of evil is brought about solely by human action.