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>
=Living in Grace=
==Guru’s Grace==
If it is the general compassion and grace of the Guru, that, one would think, is always there on the disciple; his acceptance itself is an act of grace and the help is there for the disciple to receive. But the touch of grace, divine grace coming directly or through the Guru is a special phenomenon having two sides to it,—the grace of the Guru or the Divine, in fact both together, on one side and a "state of grace" in the disciple on the other. This "state of grace" is often prepared by a long tapasya or purification in which nothing decisive seems to happen, only touches or glimpses or passing experiences at the most, and it comes suddenly without warning. If this is what is spoken of in Ramakrishna's ["With the Guru's grace all difficulties can disappear in a flash, even as age long darkness does the moment you strike a match."] saying, then it is true that when it comes, the fundamental difficulties can in a moment and generally do disappear. Or at the very least something happens which makes the rest of the sadhana—however long it may take—sure and secure. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-guru#p23</ref>
The Guru's touch or grace may open something, but the difficulties have always to be worked out still. What is true is that if there is complete surrender which implies the prominence of the psychic, these difficulties are no longer felt as a burden or obstacle but only as superficial imperfections which the working of the grace will remove. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-guru#p28</ref>
It is not the human defects of the Guru that can stand in the way when there is the psychic opening, confidence and surrender. The Guru is the channel or the representative or the manifestation of the Divine, according to the measure of his personality or his attainment; but whatever he is, it is to the Divine that one opens in opening to him, and if something is determined by the power of the channel, more is determined by the inherent and intrinsic attitude of the receiving consciousness, an element that comes out in the surface mind as simple trust or direct unconditional self-giving, and once that is there, the essential things can be gained even from one who seems to others than the disciple an inferior spiritual source and the rest will grow up in the sadhak of itself by the Grace of the Divine, even if the human being in the Guru cannot give it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-guru#p45</ref>
==Krishna’s Grace==
The Grace of Krishna consists for him [devotee] in Krishna's very lovableness, in his showing of himself to the devotee, in his call, the cry of his flute. That is enough for the heart or, if there is anything more, it is the yearning that others or all may hear the flute, see the face, feel all the beauty and rapture of this love. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p53</ref>
Krishna's Grace calls whom it wills to call without any determining reason for the choice or rejection, his mercy or his withholding or at least delaying of his mercy, or else he calls the hearts that are ready to vibrate and leap up at his call—and even there he waits till the moment has come. To say that it does not depend on outward merit or appearance of fitness is no doubt true; the something that was ready to wake in spite, it may be, of many hard layers in which it was enclosed, may be something visible to Krishna and not to us. It was there perhaps long before the flute began to play, but he was busy melting the hard layers so that the heart in its leap might not be pressed back by them when the awakening notes came. The Gopis heard and rushed out into the forest—the others did not—or did they think it was only some rustic music or some rude cowherd lover fluting to his sweetheart, not a call that learned and cultured or virtuous ears could recognise as the call of the Divine? <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p54</ref>
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>
==Mother’s Grace==
Who is worthy or unworthy in front of the Divine Grace?
All are children of the one and the same Mother.
Her love is equally spread over all of them.
But to each one She gives according to his nature and receptivity. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p23-p26</ref>
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The Mother's grace is there always; open yourself to it in quietude and confidence. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p3</ref>
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''Q. Is the Mother's Grace always general?''
''A:'' Both general and special. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p17-p18</ref>
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''Q.Do calm and equality come down from above by the Mother's Grace? ''
''A:'' When they descend, it is by the soul's aspiration and the Mother's grace.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p1-p2</ref>
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''Q.''Can it be believed that the Mother's Grace is acting even when the difficulties do not disappear?''
''A:'' In that case everybody might say that all my difficulties must disappear at once, I must attain to perfection immediately and without difficulties, otherwise it proves that the Mother's Grace is not with me.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/difficulties-and-the-mothers-grace#p3-p4</ref>
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No sadhak ought ever to indulge thoughts of unfitness and hopelessness—they are quite irrelevant because it is not one's personal fitness and worthiness that makes one succeed, but the Mother's grace and power and the consent of the soul to her grace and the workings of her Force. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-call-and-the-capacity#p31</ref>
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The grace of the Mother does not withdraw; open yourself and you will feel it.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p5</ref>
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...a strong will to purification and an aspiration that does not flag and cease, if the Mother's grace is to be there and effective. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p7</ref>
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The effort demanded of the sadhak is that of aspiration, rejection and surrender. If these three are done, the rest is to come of itself by the grace of the Mother and the working of her force in you. But of the three the most important is surrender of which the first necessary form is trust and confidence and patience in difficulty.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/resistances-sufferings-and-falls#p28</ref>
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''Q. Is there any law of the working of the Mother's Grace?''
''A:'' The more one develops the psychic, the more is it possible for the Grace to act. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p14-p15</ref>
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On the whole aspire for the growth of the psychic and its control of the rest of the nature and for the opening, not to a larger vital consciousness, but to the higher consciousness above. And at all stages open yourself to the protection of the Mother and her grace and call on that for your safeguard and your guidance.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-intermediate-zone#p17</ref>
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To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always together—the Grace of the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrender. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mother-iii#p1</ref>
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The forces [adverse forces] can always be there so long as there is not the transformation of the whole nature. They manifest themselves whenever they can. But if the Presence of the Mother can always be felt vividly and continuously, then one need not be troubled by their endeavours; one can face and repel them in the full consciousness of the Mother's grace and protection.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-presence-and-the-adverse-forces#p2</ref>
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...opening yourself at the same time to the Mother in your work, you would receive more constantly the grace and would come to feel her power doing the work through you; you would thus be able to live constantly with the sense of her presence. If on the contrary you allow your fancies or desires to interfere with your work or are careless and negligent, you interrupt the flow of her grace and give room for sorrow and uneasiness and other foreign forces to enter into you. Yoga through work is the easiest and most effective way to enter into the stream of this sadhana. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/opening-to-the-mother-in-work#p3</ref>
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The more complete your faith, sincerity and surrender, the more will grace and protection be with you. And when the grace and protection of the Divine Mother are with you, what is there that can touch you or whom need you fear? A little of it even will carry you through all difficulties, obstacles and dangers; surrounded by its full presence you can go securely on your way because it is hers, careless of all menace, unaffected by any hostility however powerful, whether from this world or from worlds invisible. Its touch can turn difficulties into opportunities, failure into success and weakness into unfaltering strength. For the grace of the Divine Mother is the sanction of the Supreme and now or tomorrow its effect is sure, a thing decreed, inevitable and irresistible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mother-iii#p3</ref>
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For when one begins to be conscious in the way you have begun and something from within raises up all that was hidden, it means that the Mother's grace is on your nature and her force is working and your inner being is aiding the Mother's force to get rid of all these things. So you must not be sorrowful or discouraged or fear anything, but look steadily at all that comes out and have the will that it should go completely and for ever. With the Mother's force working and the psychic being supporting the force, all can be done and all will surely be done. This purification is made just in order that no trouble may occur in the future such as happened to some because they were not purified—in order that the higher consciousness may come into a purified nature and the inner transformation securely take place. Go on therefore with faith and courage putting your reliance on the Mother. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/dealing-with-depression-and-despondency#p10</ref>
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''Q. When a sadhak feels the Mother's Grace coming down in him, is it by the consent of the Purusha in him?''
''A:'' What do you mean "by the consent"? The Mother's Grace comes down by the Mother's will. The Purusha can accept or reject the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p11,p12</ref>
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It is the work of the Cosmic Power to maintain the cosmos and the law of Is there any law of the working of the Mother's Grace? Why does the Mother in her universal action act according to the law of things, but in her embodied physical by constant Grace?
It is the work of the Cosmic Power to maintain the cosmos—transforming it by a slow evolution. The greater transformation comes from the Transcendent above the universe, and it is that transcendent Grace which the embodiment of the Mother is there to bring into action. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-universal-action-and-her-embodied-physical-action#p4-p5</ref>
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In her universal action the Mother acts according to the law of things—in her embodied physical action is the opportunity of a constant Grace,—it is for that that the embodiment takes place. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-universal-action-and-her-embodied-physical-action#p2</ref>
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The great work of the Avatar is to manifest the Divine Grace upon earth. To be a disciple of the Avatar is to become an instrument of the Divine Grace. The Mother is the great dispensatrix—through identity—of the Divine Grace with a perfect knowledge—through identity—of the absolute mechanism of Universal Justice.
And through her mediation each movement of sincere and confident aspiration towards the Divine calls down in response the intervention of the Grace.
“Who can stand before You, O Lord, and say in all sincerity: ‘I have never made a mistake’? How many times in a day we commit faults against Your work, and always Your Grace comes to efface them!
“Without the ceaseless intervention of Your Grace, who would not often times have come under the merciless blade of the Law of Universal Justice?
“Each one here represents an impossibility to be resolved, but as for Your Divine Grace all things are possible. Your work will be, in the detail as in the ensemble, the accomplishment of all the impossibilities transformed into divine realisations.”
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p4,p5,p6,p7,p8</ref>
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=More On Grace=