Nothing can be more positive than the Gita's statement in this matter. "And by doing also all actions always lodged in Me he attains by my grace the eternal and imperishable status." This liberating action is of the character of works done in a profound union of the will and all the dynamic parts of our nature with the Divine in ourself and the cosmos. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/19/towards-the-supreme-secret#p12</ref>
=How to Walk the Path of Sadhana?=
The closer you come to the Divine, the more you live under a shower of overwhelming evidence of His immeasurable Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p27</ref>
Psychic life in the universe is a work of the divine Grace. Psychic growth is a work of the divine Grace and the ultimate power of the psychic being over the physical-being will also be a result of the divine Grace. And the mind, if it wants to be at all useful, has only to remain very quiet, as quiet as it can, because if it meddles in it, it is sure to spoil everything. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/9-february-1955#p22</ref>
The divine Consciousness works always, everywhere and in the same way. The divine Grace is active everywhere, and in all circumstances in the same way. And so on. But according to your personal attitude, you create within yourself the conditions for receiving what is done or not receiving it. And trust—indeed, trust in the Truth, trust in the Grace, trust in the divine Knowledge—this puts you in that state of receptivity in which you can receive these things. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/25-november-1953#p6</ref>
==By Reliance on the Divine Grace==
There is nobody who can go on in his own strength or by right of his fitness to the goal of the sadhana. It is only by the Divine Grace and reliance on the Divine Grace that it can be done. It is in a strength greater than your own that you must put your first and last reliance. If your faith falters you have to call on that to sustain you; if your force is insufficient against the ill-will and opposition that surround you, open yourself to receive that force in its place.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-call-and-the-capacity#p29</ref>
To be absolutely sincere, straightforward, open, is not an easy achievement for human nature. It is only by spiritual endeavour that one can realise it—and to do it needs a severity of introspective self-vision, an unsparing scrutiny of self-observation of which many sadhaks or Yogins even are not capable and it is only by an illumining Grace that reveals the sadhak to himself and transforms what is deficient in him that it can be done. And even then only if he himself consents and lends himself wholly to the divine working. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/sincerity#p10</ref>
It is in action, in effort, in the march forward that repose must be found, the true repose of complete trust in the divine Grace, of the absence of desires, of victory over egoism. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/20-march-1957#p11</ref>
And once you have seen this, you feel you are never equal to it, for you should never forget it, never have any fears, any anguish, any regrets, any recoils... or even suffering. If one were in union with this Grace, if one saw It everywhere, one would begin living a life of exultation, of all-power, of infinite happiness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/1-august-1956#p51</ref>
One cannot be perfect in discrimination at once or in rejection either. The one indispensable thing is to go on trying sincerely till there comes the full success. So long as there is complete sincerity, the Divine Grace will be there and assist at every moment on the way. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/sincerity#p20</ref>
Everything should be for the sake of the Divine, this [aspiration for the Divine's Presence] also. As for leaving the result to the Divine, it depends on what you mean by the phrase. If it implies dependence on the Divine Grace and equanimity and patience in the persistent aspiration, then it is all right. But it must not be extended to cover slackness and indifference in the aspiration and endeavour. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p13</ref>
I ask you to have faith in the Divine, in the Divine Grace, in the truth of the sadhana, in the eventual triumph of the spirit over its mental and vital and physical difficulties, in the Path and the Guru, in the existence of things...<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/faith#p52</ref>
No sadhak can reach the supermind by his own efforts and the effort to do it by personal tapasya has been the source of many mishaps. One has to go quietly stage by stage until the being is ready and even then it is only the Grace that can bring the real supramental change. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-supramental-transformation#p15</ref>
==By Progress==
''With the touch of the divine Grace, how do difficulties become opportunities for progress?''
Opportunities for progress? Yes! Well, this is something quite obvious. You have made a big mistake, you are in great difficulty: then, if you have faith, if you have trust in the divine Grace, if you really rely on It, you will suddenly realise that it is a lesson, that your difficulty or mistake is nothing else but a lesson and that it comes to teach you to find within yourself what needs to be changed, and with this help of the divine Grace you will discover in yourself what has to be changed. And you will change it. And so, from a difficulty you will have made great progress, taken a considerable leap forward. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/21-july-1954#p42-p43</ref>
The Grace is something that pushes you towards the goal to be attained. Do not try to judge it by your mind, you will not get anywhere, because it is something formidable which is not explained through human words or feelings. When the Grace acts, the result may or may not be pleasant―it takes no account of any human value, it may even be a catastrophe from the ordinary and superficial point of view. But it is always the best for the individual. It is a blow that the Divine sends so that progress may be made by leaps and bounds. The Grace is that which makes you march swiftly towards the realisation. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p23</ref>
For those who have given themselves to the Divine each difficulty that confronts them is the assurance of a new progress and thus must be taken as a gift from the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p17</ref>
Later—much later—one day, looking back, we may see that everything that happened, even what seemed to us the worst, was a Divine Grace to make us advance on the way...<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-july-1958#p8</ref>
All depends on what you want. If you want Yoga, take ''all'' that happens as the expression of the Divine Grace leading you towards your goal, and try to understand the lesson that circumstances give. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p15</ref>
It is certain that for someone who has desires, when his desires are not satisfied, it is a sign that the Divine Grace is with him and wants, through experience, to make him progress rapidly, by teaching him that a willing and spontaneous surrender to the Divine Will is a much surer way to be happy in peace and light than the satisfaction of any desire. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-175#p5</ref> [Based on Aphorism 175 – Because a good man dies or fails and the evil live and triumph, is God therefore evil? I do not see the logic of the consequence. I must first be convinced that death and failure are evil; I sometimes think that when they come, they are our supreme momentary good. But we are the fools of our hearts and nerves and argue that what they do not like or desire, must of course be an evil! ]
When the Grace acts on the individual, it gives to each the maximum position according to what he is and what he has realized.
And then, there is a super-grace, as it were, which works in a few exceptional cases, which places you not according to what you are but according to what you are to become, which means that the universal cosmic position is ahead of the individual's progress.
And it is then that you should keep silent and fall on your knees. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-2-1958#p14-p16</ref>
Leave all care to the Divine's Grace, including your progress, and you will be in peace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p23</ref>
==By Surrender==
Let us give ourselves without reserve to the Divine, so best shall we receive the Divine Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p28</ref>
Bhakti in its fullness is nothing but an entire self-giving...Then all meditation, all tapasya, all means of prayer or mantra must have that as its end and it is when one has progressed sufficiently in that that the Divine Grace descends and the realisation comes and develops till it is complete. But the moment of its advent is chosen by the wisdom of the Divine alone and one must have the strength to go on till it arrives; for when all is truly ready it cannot fail to come. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p52</ref>
If you have had even a second's contact with the Grace—that marvellous Grace which carries you along, speeds you on the path, even makes you forget that you have to hurry—if you have had only a second's contact with that, then you can strive not to forget. And with the candour of a child, the simplicity of a child for whom there are no complications, give yourself to that Grace and let it do everything. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/12-november-1958#p16</ref>
It is never to lose the idea of the total self-giving to the Grace which is the expression of the Supreme. When one gives oneself, when one surrenders, entrusts oneself entirely to That which is above, beyond all creation, and when, instead of seeking any personal advantage from the experience, one makes an offering of it to the divine Grace and knows that it is from This that the experience comes and that it is to This that the result of the experience must be given back, then one is quite safe.
In other words: no ambition, no vanity, no pride. A sincere self-giving, a sincere humility, and one is sheltered from all danger. There you are, this is what I call being greater than one's experience. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/22-august-1956#p24,p25</ref>
In any case, the only thing which is really effective is to will what the Divine wills, and to keep an unshakable confidence in the supreme compassion of the Divine Grace, for through that it is always the best that happens; not the best according to human ideas but the best according to the supreme Truth. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p9-p10</ref>
And there is no other remedy. It's the only remedy, for ''everybody'' without exception. To all those who suffer, it is the same thing that has to be said: all suffering is the sign that the surrender is not total. Then, when you feel in you a "bang", like that, instead of saying, "Oh, this is bad" or "This circumstance is difficult," you say, "My surrender is not perfect." Then it's all right. And then you feel the Grace that helps you and leads you, and you go on. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/11-may-1967#p3</ref>
Therefore, says the Teacher [Sri Krishna in the Gita], "devoting all thyself to me, giving up in thy conscious mind all thy actions into Me, resorting to Yoga of the will and intelligence be always one in heart and consciousness with Me. If thou art that at all times, then by my grace thou shalt pass safe through all difficult and perilous passages; but if from egoism thou hear not, thou shalt fall into perdition. Vain is this thy resolve, that in thy egoism thou thinkest, saying 'I will not fight'; thy nature shall appoint thee to thy work. What from delusion thou desirest not to do, that helplessly thou shalt do bound by thy own work born of thy swabhava. The Lord is stationed in the heart of all existences, O Arjuna, and turns them all round and round mounted on a machine by his Maya. In him take refuge in every way of thy being and by his grace thou shalt come to the supreme peace and the eternal status."
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/19/the-supreme-secret#p1</ref>
==By Peace==
It is only by remaining perfectly peaceful and calm with an unshakable confidence and faith in the Divine Grace that you will allow circumstances to be as good as they can be. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p1</ref>
Keep a ''cool head'', strong and ''very quiet nerves'', and a ''complete trust'' in the Divine Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p20</ref>
Whatever happens we must remain quiet and trust the Divine's Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p18</ref>
Nothing can be compared to the peace that comes from a total trust in the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p22</ref>
=How Not to Distance from the Divine Grace=