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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?''
''Is A:'' Both general and special. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p17-p18</ref><center>~</center>''Q.Do calm and equality come down from above by the Mother's Grace always general?''
''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.
''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?''
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!
“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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