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The Divine Grace and Power can do everything, but with the full assent of the sadhak. To learn to give that full assent is the whole meaning of the sadhana. It may take time either because of ideas in the mind, desires in the vital or inertia in the physical consciousness, but these things have to be and can be removed with the aid or by calling in the action of the Divine Force. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p11</ref>

Without the Grace of the Divine nothing can be done, but for the full Grace to manifest the sadhak must make himself ready. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p10</ref>

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. <ref>https://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>

The complete consecration is undoubtedly not an easy matter, and it might take an almost indefinitely long time if you had to do it all by yourself, by your own independent effort. But when the Divine's Grace is with you it is not exactly like that. With a little push from the Divine now and then, a little push in this direction and in that, the work becomes comparatively quite easy. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/surrender-self-offering-and-consecration#p1</ref>

You must realise that these moods are attacks which should be rejected at once—for they repose on nothing but suggestions of self-distrust and incapacity which have no meaning, since it is by the Grace of the Divine and the aid of a Force greater than your own, not by personal capacity and worth that you can attain the goal of the sadhana. You have to remember that and dissociate yourself from these suggestions when they come, never accept or yield to them.

<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-call-and-the-capacity#p23</ref>

Vital difficulties are the common lot of every human being and of every sadhak—they are to be met with a quiet determination and confidence in the Divine’s Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-difficulties-of-yoga#p13</ref>

Face all these things quietly and firmly with perseverance in the endeavour of the sadhana. Trust firmly in the Divine Grace and the Divine Grace will not fail you. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p23</ref>

And such things come to you, not because you are unlucky or because your lot is not a happy one, but because, on the contrary, the divine Consciousness and the divine Grace take your resolution seriously and allow the circumstances to become a touchstone on your way, to see whether your resolution is sincere and whether you are strong enough to face the difficulties. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-elephant#p16</ref>

<center>~</center> 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> <center>~</center>

Yes, the solution is certainly the Divine Grace—it comes of itself, intervening suddenly or with an increasing force when all is ready. Meanwhile it is there behind all the struggles, and "the unconquerable aspiration for the light" of which you speak is the outward sign that it will intervene. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-difficulties-of-human-nature#p32</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>

Through this apparent chaos a new and better order is being formed. But to see it one must have faith in the Divine Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p33</ref>

Everything should be for the sake of the Divine, this 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 other than are written in the philosophy of Haeckel or Huxley or Bertrand Russell, because if these things are not true, there is no meaning in the Yoga. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/faith#p52</ref>

The only question is whether there is something behind all the anomalies of life which can respond to the call and open itself with whatever difficulty till it is ready for the illumination of the Divine Grace—and that something must be not a mental and vital movement but an inner somewhat which can well be seen by the inner eye. If it is there and when it becomes active in front, then the Compassion can act, though the full action of the Grace may still wait attending the decisive decision or change; for this may be postponed to a future hour, because some portion or element of the being may still come between, something that is not yet ready to receive. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p4</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>

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>

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>

The only help one can and should receive is that of the Grace which formulates itself in everyone according to his own need. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/24-september-1958#p19</ref>

For the Grace to have a perfect and total result of its action, the faith must be ''total and perfect.'' <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p10</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>

When physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must not run away from it, must face it with courage, calmness, confidence, with the certitude that illness is a _falsehood_ and that if one turns entirely, in full confidence, with a complete quietude to the divine grace, it will settle in these cells as it establishes itself in the depths of the being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Delight. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/fear-and-illness#p7</ref>

<center>~</center> All the circumstances of life are arranged to teach us that, beyond mind, faith in the Divine Grace gives us the strength to go through all trials, to overcome all weaknesses and find the contact with the Divine Consciousness which gives us not only peace and joy but also physical balance and good health.~~<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-382#p2</ref>~~ [Based on Aphorism 382—For nearly forty years behind the wholly good I was weakly in constitution; I suffered constantly from the smaller and the greater ailments and mistook this curse for a burden that Nature had laid upon me. When I renounced the aid of medicines, then they began to depart from me like disappointed parasites. Then only I understood what a mighty force was the natural health within me and how much mightier yet the Will and Faith exceeding mind which God meant to be the divine support of our life in this body.]<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-382#p2</ref> <center>~</center>

''In the present growing conflict what should be our attitude?''

Faith and total confidence in the Divine's Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p35-p36</ref>

The grace and protection are always with you. When in any inner or outer difficulty or trouble do not allow it to oppress you; take refuge with the Divine Force that protects.

If you do that always with faith and sincerity, you will find something opening in you which will always remain calm and peaceful in spite of all superficial disturbances. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/vigilance-resolution-will-and-the-divine-help#p71-p72</ref>

Have faith. There is no disease which cannot be cured by the Divine Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p3</ref>

The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means—whether by reading Sri Aurobindo's books or meditation. It is in this state that the Grace acts. And it is the Grace alone that cures. The medicines only give a faith to the body. That is all. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p10</ref>

Once more, the lack of faith of the human mind brings complications and pain where with a quiet faith in the Divine Guidance all could be very simple and easy. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p11</ref>

You answer to all the contrary forces, the contrary movements, the attacks, the misunderstandings, the bad wills, with the same smile that comes from full confidence in the Divine Grace. And that is the ''only'' way out, there is no other. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/11-may-1967#p3</ref>

Do not allow any discouragement to come upon you and have no distrust of the Divine Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/faith#p54</ref>

With trust in the Divine's Grace all obstacles can be surmounted. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p10</ref>

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>

Man is a mass of imperfections—it is only by the divine Grace that he reaches the Divine. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/religion-and-yoga#p6</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>

<center>~</center> 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! ]<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-175#p5</ref> <center>~</center>

There is no reason why suffering should be indispensable for making progress. You bring the suffering on yourself by the wrong ideas of the mind and by the revolts of the vital. The Mother's grace and love are there, but the mind refuses to recognise it. If there is confidence, if the mind and vital consent to surrender and have full faith and reliance, then there may be difficulties but there is no suffering. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/resistances-sufferings-and-falls#p15</ref>

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>

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>

A single instant, a single impulse of deep and true love, a single minute of deep communion with the divine Grace brings you much closer to the goal than all possible explanations. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/12/april-17-1971#p113</ref>

When, in your life, you meet with a hardship, take it as a Grace from the Lord and, indeed, it will become so. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p3</ref>

In any case and whatever happens, always consider events as a gift from the Divine Grace which is leading you by swift paths towards the spiritual goal of your life. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p6</ref>

The Divine does not want human beings to suffer, but, in their ignorance, human beings react in such a way that they bring suffering upon themselves. In peace, quietness and surrender is the only solution. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p13</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>

When difficulties besiege you, know that the Divine Grace is with you.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p19</ref>

People believe that the Grace means making everything smooth for all your life. It is not true.

The Grace works for the realisation of your aspiration and everything is arranged to gain the most prompt, the quickest realisation. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p20-p21</ref>

If you can tell yourself, "Good, perhaps the divine Grace deserves our confidence", simply this, nothing else, you will avoid many difficulties, many. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-december-1954#p41</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>

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>

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>

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>

The Divine Grace is with us and never leaves us even when the appearances are dark. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p19</ref>

At each moment of our life, in all circumstances the Grace is there helping us to surmount all difficulties. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p23</ref>

In failure as well as in success, the Divine's Grace is always there. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p25</ref>

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>

"At the very moment when everything seems to go from bad to worse, it is then that we must make a supreme act of faith and know that the Grace will never fail us." <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/comments-on-new-year-messages#p9</ref>

The Grace will never fail us―such is the faith we must keep constantly in our heart. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p15</ref>

Do not allow these ideas to gain on you or even to occupy your mind. It is not by their merit or their effort or the capacity they show that men advance in the spiritual path, but by their opening to the divine help and grace. For that you must have the confidence that whatever your own weakness, the grace will not fail you. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/imperfections-and-periods-of-arrest#p27</ref>

Have full trust in the Divine's Grace and the Divine's Grace will help you in all ways. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p14</ref>

Have faith and unshaken confidence. The Divine Grace will do the rest. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p49</ref>

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