=What is Divine Grace?=
<center>There is a Power that no ruler can command; there is a Happiness that no earthly success can bring; there is a Light that no wisdom can possess; there is a Knowledge that no philosophy and no science can master; there is a Bliss of which no satisfaction of desire can give the enjoyment; there is a thirst for Love that no human relation can appease; there is a Peace that one finds nowhere here, not even in death.
'''It is the Power, the Happiness, the Light, the Knowledge, the Bliss, the Love, the Peace that flow from the Divine Grace.''' <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/december-28-1928#p2-p3</ref></center>
'''==Flower that Signifies Grace'''==
The Divine Grace
Flowers speak to us when we know how to listen to them, the Mother said. It is a subtle and fragrant language. As if to provide a key to this language, she identified the significances of almost nine hundred flower.]
=What is Divine Grace?=
==A Divine and Mysterious Power==
If you would know what is the Divine Grace, it is necessary first to realise that it is something which contradicts the law of the world, for it is outside its normal rule and not of its nature. There is here something which does not seem to govern at all the cosmic action, but only to intervene, and yet it is always there; an element without which this universe would be either a tremendous machine or a fortuitously and yet inexorably ordered chancechance…...there is probably something else beyond the intellect which alone can give him[man] the Light—something beyond his mind and greater than himself—a Grace that intervenes, the law of a supernormal Light and Will, a help, an opening from above. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p2,p3</ref> <center>~</center> There are no words that can express the magnificence of the Grace: how everything is arranged for things to move as fast as possible. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/november-19-1969#p73</ref>
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The Grace, the Grace alone can act. That alone can open the way, that alone can do the miracle. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p51</ref>
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…but this divine grace, if we may so call it, is not simply a mysterious flow or touch coming from above, but the all-pervading act of a divine presence which we come to know within as the power of the highest Self and Master of our being entering into the soul and so possessing it that we not only feel it close to us and pressing upon our mortal nature, but live in its law, know that law, possess it as the whole power of our spiritualised nature. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-integral-perfection#p12</ref>
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I have said also that the Grace is not an inventioncan at any moment act suddenly, but over that one has no control, because it comes by an incalculable Will which sees things that the mind cannot see. It is a fact of spiritual experience. Many who would be considered as mere nothings by precisely the wise reason why one should never despair,—that and strong have attained by Gracealso because no sincere aspiration to the Divine can fail in the end. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p14p22</ref>
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In the whole manifestation there A state of Grace is an infinite Grace constantly at work to bring the world out of prepared in the misery, individual often behind thick veils by means not calculable by the obscurity mind and when the stupidity in which it lies. From all time this state of Grace has been at work, unremitting in its effort, and how many thousands of years were necessary for this world to awaken to comes then the need for something greater, more true, more beautifulGrace itself acts. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0929/29the-divine-grace-octoberand-1958guidance#p11p4</ref>
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There are really no words to express it, that sense of wonder towards the Grace.... The Grace, the Grace is a thing that exceeds all understanding in its clear-sighted goodness....<ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/november-19-1969#p84</ref>
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Then there is probably something else beyond the intellect which alone can give him[Man] the Light—something beyond his mind and greater than himself—a Grace that intervenes, the law of a supernormal Light and Will, a help, an opening from above. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p3</ref>
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It [Divine Grace] is an action from above or from within independent of mental causes which decides its own movement. We can call it the Divine Grace; we can call it the Self within choosing its own hour and way to manifest to the mental instrument on the surface; we can call it the flowering of the inner being or inner nature into self-realisation and self-knowledge. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p6</ref>
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It is only the Divine's Grace that can give peace, happiness, power, light, knowledge, beatitude and love in their essence and their truth. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p21</ref>
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Keep good faith in the Grace. She is the doer of all miracles. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p52</ref>
==Decoding Divine Grace==
The Divine Grace is something not calculable, not bound by anything the intellect can fix as a condition—though ordinarily some call, aspiration, intensity of the psychic being can awaken it, yet it acts sometimes without any apparent cause even of that kind. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p9</ref>
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No matter how great your faith and trust in the divine The Divine Grace, no matter how great your capacity to see it at work in all circumstances, at every moment, at every point in life, you will never succeed in understanding the marvellous immensity of Its Action, and the precision, the exactitude with which this Action is accomplished; you will never cannot be able to grasp to what extent the Grace does everything, is behind everything, organises everything, conducts everything, so that the march forward to the divine realisation may be as swift, as complete, as total explained through words and harmonious as possible, considering the circumstances of the worldmental formulas. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/0814/1the-augustdivine-1956grace#p49p19</ref>
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The Divine …no matter how great your faith and trust in the divine Grace cannot , no matter how great your capacity to see it at work in all circumstances, at every moment, at every point in life, you will never succeed in understanding the marvellous immensity of Its Action, and the precision, the exactitude with which this Action is accomplished; you will never be explained through words able to grasp to what extent the Grace does everything, is behind everything, organises everything, conducts everything, so that the march forward to the divine realisation may be as swift, as complete, as total and mental formulasharmonious as possible, considering the circumstances of the world.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1408/the1-divineaugust-grace1956#p19p49</ref>
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Grace is not an invention, it is a fact of spiritual experience. Many who would be considered as mere nothings by the wise and strong have attained by Grace; illiterate, without mental power or training, without "strength" of character or will, they have yet aspired and suddenly or rapidly grown into spiritual realisation, because they had faith or because they were sincere… Strength, if it is spiritual, is a power for spiritual realisation; a greater power is sincerity; the greatest power of all is Grace. I have said times without number that if a man is sincere, he will go through in spite of long delay and overwhelming difficulties. I have repeatedly spoken of the Divine Grace. I have referred any number of times to the line of the Gita:
Imagine the world as a single whole and, in a certain sense, finite, limited but containing potentially innumerable possibilities of which the combinations are so numerous that they are equivalent to an infinite (you must be careful with words, however; I am very much cramped by words, they do not express exactly what I mean). So, the universe is objectified by the Divine Consciousness, by the Supreme, according to certain determined laws of which we shall speak later. The universe is a single whole, in the sense that it is the Divine—it does not contain the whole of the Divine, but it is as though the Divine deployed Himself so as to objectify Himself; that is the ''raison dAhaṁ tvā sarvapāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ'être'' of the manifestation of the universe. It is as if the divine Consciousness wandered into all divine possibilities following a path it had chosen. Imagine then a multitude of possibles of which all the possible combinations are equivalent to an infinite. The divine Consciousness is essentially free—It wanders therein and objectifies Itself. The path traversed is free in the midst of an infinite multiplicity which is at the same time pre-existent and absolutely undetermined according to the action of the free divine Will. It may be conceived that this Will, being free, is able to change the course of the deployment, change the path and, although everything is pre-existent and consequently inevitable, the road, the path is free and absolutely unexpected. These changes of the route, if one may say so, can therefore change the relations between things and circumstances, and consequently the determinism is changed. This change of the circuit is called "the effect of the Grace"; well, through the aid of the Grace, if the Grace decides it, things can change, the course can be different. Things can change their places and instead of following a certain circuit follow another. A circumstance which, according to a particular determinism, should occur at a certain place ahead, for instance, would instead occur behind, and so on. The relations between things consequently change. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/1-march-1951#p4</ref>
<center>~</center> The Divine Grace is there, ready to act at every moment, but it manifests as one grows out of the Law of the Ignorance into the Law of Light "I will deliver thee from all sin and it is meantevil, do not as an arbitrary caprice, however miraculous often its intervention, but as a help in that growth and a Light that leads and eventually deliversgrieve. "<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2829/philosophicalthe-thoughtdivine-grace-and-yogaguidance#p11p14,p15,p16</ref>
In the whole manifestation there is an infinite Grace constantly at work to bring the world out of the misery, the obscurity and the stupidity in which it lies. From all time this Grace has been at work, unremitting in its effort, and how many thousands of years were necessary for this world to awaken to the need for something greater, more true, more beautiful. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/29-october-1958#p11</ref>
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However long the journey may be and however great the traveller, at the end is always found exclusive reliance on the Divine Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p54</ref>
=What is Not Divine Grace?=
==Divine Grace, Divine Compassion and The Cosmic Law==
I should like to say something about the Divine Grace—for you seem to think it should be something like a Divine Reason acting upon lines not very different from those of human intelligence. But it is not that. Also it is not a universal Divine Compassion either, acting impartially on all who approach it and acceding to all prayers. It does not select the righteous and reject the sinner. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p4</ref>
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''Q.Sri Aurobindo speaks of the influence of the Divine Compassion and the Divine Grace. But what is the difference between the two?''
There are these three powers''A: (1) ''The Cosmic Lawcompassion seeks to relieve the suffering of all, of Karma whether they deserve it or what else; (2) the Divine Compassion acting on as many as it can reach through the nets of the Law and giving them their chance; (3) the Divine Grace which acts more incalculably but also more irresistibly than the othersnot. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/basic-requisites-of-the-path-v#p112</ref>
The Grace does not recognise the right of suffering to exist and abolishes it. <centerref>~https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/21-december-1966#p2-p5</centerref>
It is a power that is superior to any rule, even to the Cosmic Law—for all spiritual seers have distinguished between the Law and ==Decoding Divine Grace. Yet it is not indiscriminate—only it has a discrimination of its own which sees things and persons and the right times and seasons with another vision than that of the Mind or any other normal Power. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p4</ref>==
There are these three powers: (1) The Cosmic Law, of Karma or what else; (2) the Divine Compassion acting on as many as it can reach through the nets of the Law and giving them their chance; (3) the Divine Grace which acts more incalculably but also more irresistibly than the others. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/basic-requisites-of-the-path-v#p112</ref>
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That was the experience: I saw and felt this Compassion working through the meshes of the net, and how the The Divine Grace is all-powerfulthere, meaning that the "Law" isn't an obstacle any longer. I saw this Compassion touching everyone and giving everyone their chance; I understood what he[Sri Aurobindo] really meant when he said that it "gives everyone their chance"—equally, without the slightest distinction of importance or condition or anything, or of state: exactly the same chance ready to all. So thenact at every moment, the result but it manifests as one grows out of this Compassion was to awaken them to the existence Law of the Grace, to make them feel that there is in Ignorance into the universe something like the Grace. And with those who aspire Law of Light and have trustit is meant, not as an arbitrary caprice, the Grace acts immediately—it always actshowever miraculous often its intervention, but with those who have trust it becomes fully effectiveas a help in that growth and a Light that leads and eventually delivers. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0728/decemberphilosophical-7thought-and-1966yoga#p4p11</ref>
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''Sri Aurobindo speaks of It is a power that is superior to any rule, even to the influence of Cosmic Law—for all spiritual seers have distinguished between the Divine Compassion Law and the Divine Grace. But what Yet it is not indiscriminate—only it has a discrimination of its own which sees things and persons and the difference between right times and seasons with another vision than that of the two?'' The compassion seeks to relieve the suffering of all, whether they deserve it Mind or notany other normal Power.The A state of Grace does is prepared in the individual often behind thick veils by means not recognise calculable by the right mind and when the state of suffering to exist and abolishes itGrace comes then the Grace itself acts. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1629/21the-decemberdivine-1966grace-and-guidance#p2-p5p4</ref>
=Experience of the Divine Grace=
==Touch of Grace==
Of course in many cases there is a true experience first, a touch of the Grace, but it is not something that lasts and is always there, but rather something that touches and withdraws and waits for the nature to get ready. But this is not so in every case, not even in many cases, I believe. One has to begin with the soul's inherent longing, then the struggle with the nature to get the temple ready, then the unveiling of the Image, the permanent Presence in the sanctuary. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p14</ref>
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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>
==The Divine Presence==
And, moreover, there are days when one is in contact with the divine Consciousness which is at work, with the Grace, and then everything is tinged, coloured with this Presence, and things which usually seem to you dull and uninteresting become charming, pleasant, attractive, instructive—everything lives and vibrates, and is full of promise and force. So, when one opens to that, one feels stronger, freer, happier, full of energy, and ''everything'' has a meaning. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/26-september-1956#p14</ref>
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But it's so lovely when this Harmony comes. You know, puttering about, arranging papers, setting a drawer in order.... It all sings, it's lovely, so joyous and luminous... so delightful! And all, all, all.... All material things, all activities, eating, dressing, everything becomes delightful when this harmony is there, delightful. Everything works out smoothly, it's so harmonious, there's no friction. You see... you see a joyous, luminous Grace manifesting in all things, ALL things, even those we normally regard as utterly unimportant...
But itIt makes you sense so clearly that things in themselves don't count. What we call 'things in themselves' are of no true importance! What really counts is the relationship of consciousness to these things. And there's so lovely when a formidable power in this Harmony comes. You know, puttering aboutsince in one instance you touch something and drop or mishandle it, arranging papers, setting a drawer while in order.... It all sings, the other it's so lovely, it works so joyous and luminoussmoothly.Even the most difficult movements are made without difficulty.. so delightfulIt's an unheard-of power! And allWe don't give it importance because it has no grandiose effects, all, allit's not spectacular.... All material thingsYes, all activities, eating, dressing, everything becomes delightful there are indeed states of grace when this harmony one is therein the presence of a great difficulty and suddenly has all the power needed to face it—yes, delightful. Everything works out smoothly, itbut that's so harmonious, there's no frictionsomething else. You see... you see I am speaking of a joyous, luminous Grace manifesting power active in all things, ALL things, even those we normally regard as utterly unimportantordinary life. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/july-18-1961#p63,p6</ref>
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As soon as you are in contact with It makes , there is not a second in time, not a point in space, which does not show you sense so clearly that things in themselves don't count. What we call 'things in themselvesdazzlingly'' are this perpetual work of no true importance! What really counts is the relationship Grace, this constant intervention of consciousness to these thingsthe Grace. And there's a formidable power .. If one were in union with thisGrace, since in if one instance you touch something and drop or mishandle itsaw It everywhere, while in the other it's so lovely, it works so smoothly. Even the most difficult movements are made without difficulty. It's an unheard-one would begin living a life of power! We don't give it importance because it has no grandiose effects, it's not spectacular. Yesexultation, there are indeed states of grace when one is in the presence of a great difficulty and suddenly has all the -power needed to face it—yes, but that's something else. I am speaking of a power active in ordinary lifeinfinite happiness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agendacwm/0208/july1-18august-19611956#p64p50,p51</ref>
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As soon as you are in contact with It, there is not a second in time, not a point in space, which does not show you ''dazzlingly'' this perpetual work of the Grace, this constant intervention of the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/1-august-1956#p50</ref>
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The best meditations are those that one has all of a sudden, because they take possession of you as an imperative necessity. You have no choice but to concentrate, to meditate, to look beyond the appearances. And it is not necessarily in the solitude of the forest that it seizes you, it happens when something in you is ready, when the time has come, when the true need is there, when the Grace is with you. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/miscellany#p20</ref>
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If one can see it, feel it, experience its action, so to say, be conscious of its presence and movement, then one has the joy of the movement, the progress, the realisation; but this does not mean that if one doesn't feel this joy, the action of the Grace is not there, the realisation not there. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/10-october-1956#p18</ref>
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For, as to this "Grace" [first experience of the Self], we describe it in that way because we feel in the infinite Spirit or Self of existence a Presence or a Being, a Consciousness that determines—that is what we speak of as the Divine,—not a separate Person, but the one Being of whom our individual self is a portion or a vessel. But it is not necessary for everybody to regard it in that way. Supposing it is the impersonal Self of all only, yet the Upanishad says of the Self and its realisation, "This understanding is not to be gained by reasoning nor by tapasya nor by much learning, but whom this Self chooses, to him it reveals its own body." Well, that is the same thing as what we call the Divine Grace,—it is an action from above or from within independent of mental causes which decides its own movement. We can call it the Divine Grace; we can call it the Self within choosing its own hour and way to manifest to the mental instrument on the surface; we can call it the flowering of the inner being or inner nature into self realisation and self-knowledge. As something in us approaches it or as it presents itself to us, so the mind sees it. But in reality, it is the same thing and the same process of the being in the Nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/35/first-experience-of-the-self#p1</ref>
"If one were in union with this =Why Divine 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/08/8-august-1956#p38</ref>Matters?=
=Why It is only the Divine 's Grace Matters=that can give peace, happiness, power, light, knowledge, beatitude and love in their essence and their truth. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p21</ref><center>~</center>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><center>~</center>The boon that we have asked from the Supreme is the greatest that the earth can ask from the Highest, the change that is most difficult to realise, the most exacting in its conditions. It is nothing less than the descent of the supreme Truth and Power into Matter, the supramental established in the material plane and consciousness and the material world and an integral transformation down to the very principle of Matter. Only a supreme Grace can effect this miracle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/12/integral-yoga#p97</ref>
==Grace and StrengthSaves== Strength, if it is spiritual, is a power for spiritual realisation; a greater power is sincerity; the greatest power of all is Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p14</ref> ==Grace and Justice== It is the Divine Grace that must be prayed for―if justice were to manifest, very few would be those who could stand in front of it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p2</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>
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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>
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The In failure as well as in success, the Divine 's Grace alone has the power to intervene and change the course of Universal Justice...Without the ceaseless intervention of Your [Divine’s] Grace, who would not often times have come under the merciless blade of the Law of Universal Justiceis always there. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p4,p7p25</ref>
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"Who can stand before You, O Lord, and say in all sincerity: 'I have never made a mistake'? How many times in Man is a day we commit faults against Your work, and always Your mass of imperfections—it is only by the divine Grace comes to efface them!'' that he reaches the Divine. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0528/18religion-novemberand-1953yoga#p13p6</ref>
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An act carried out has always a consequence and this consequence brings along another and so on. And this is absolutely ineluctable. That is universal justice. You have a bad thought, it has a result. And that result has yet another. And you cannot escape it except through the intervention of Grace. Grace is exactly something which has the power of changing all that. But only the Grace can change it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/18-november-1953#p23</ref>
==Grace and Will==
The Divine Will works in all things—it may work out anything whatever. The Divine Grace comes in to help and save. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p1</ref>
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The difference between knowledge and ignorance is a grace of the Spirit; the breath of divine Power blows where it lists and fills today one and tomorrow another with the word or the puissance. If the potter shapes one pot more perfectly than another, the merit lies not in the vessel but the maker. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-master-of-the-work#p12</ref>
==Grace and KarmaJustice== Completely, the Divine Grace completely contradicts Karma; you know, It makes it melt away like butter that's put in the sun. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/3-june-1953#p24</ref>
An act carried out has always a consequence and this consequence brings along another and so on. And this is absolutely ineluctable. That is universal justice. You have a bad thought, it has a result. And that result has yet another. And you cannot escape it except through the intervention of Grace. Grace is exactly something which has the power of changing all that. But only the Grace can change it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/18-november-1953#p23</ref>
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If you make a mistake without knowing that it is a mistake, that does not protect you, you are punished. Well, in Nature it is the same thing. If you take poison without knowing that it is poison, it will poison you all the same. Do you understand?... Unless the Grace intervenes. And as the Grace is omnipotent, it can change everything. That is what I have explained. But without the Grace there is no hope. For precisely it is ignorance that's the constant factor of mankind. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/18-november-1953#p23</ref>
<center>~</center>==Grace and Karma==
Destiny in the rigid sense applies only to the outer being so long as it lives in the Ignorance. What we call destiny is only in fact the result of the present condition of the being and the nature and energies it has accumulated in the past acting on each other and determining the present attempts and their future results. But as soon as one enters the path of spiritual life, this old predetermined destiny begins to recede. There comes in a new factor, the Divine Grace, the help of a higher Divine Force other than the force of Karma which can lift the sadhak beyond the present possibilities of his nature. One's spiritual destiny is then the divine election which ensures the future. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/fate-free-will-and-prediction#p2</ref>
==Grace and Tapasya==
I suppose it is to teach us first that grace is more effective than tapasya and, secondly, that either equanimity or a cheerful spontaneous happy self-opening is as effective, to say the least, as the grimmest wrestling for a result. But it would be dangerous to assume from that that no tapasya and no endeavour is needful—for that might very well mean inertia. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p17</ref>
The divine Grace alone shall be our support. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p55</ref>
==Grace and Knowledge==
Therefore, even if one has no knowledge at all but has trust in the divine Grace, if one has the faith that there is something in the world like the divine Grace, and that this something can answer a prayer, an aspiration, an invocation, then, after making one's mental formation, if one offers it to the Grace and puts one's trust in it, asks it to intervene and has the faith that it will intervene, then indeed one has a chance of success. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/8-august-1956#p24</ref>
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When one does not repeat one's past mistakes, the divine power, the power of the divine Grace, abolishes their consequences—their karma—in the being. But as long as mistakes are repeated nothing can be abolished, because one re-creates them at every minute. When a person has made a serious error, say, a serious mistake (it can be serious or not, but we are concerned primarily with the serious ones), such mistakes have their consequences in life, a karma which has to be exhausted. The divine Grace, if you call upon it, has the power to abolish that karma, to cut short the consequences—but the Grace can only do this when you, within yourself, don't begin all over again, when the mistake committed is not renewed. The past can be completely purified and abolished, on condition that one does not keep making it into a perpetual present.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/june-2-1961#p2</ref>
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...the Divine Grace completely contradicts Karma; you know, It makes it melt away like butter that's put in the sun…
...if you have an aspiration that's sincere enough or a prayer that's intense enough, you can bring down in you Something that will change everything, everything—truly it changes everything. An example may be given that is extremely limited, very small, but which makes you understand things very well: a stone falls quite mechanically; say, a tile falls; if it gets loose, it will fall, won't it? But if there comes, for example, a vital or mental determinism from someone who passes by and does not want it to fall and puts his hand out, it will fall on his hand, but it will not fall on the ground. So he has changed the destiny of this stone or tile. It is another determinism that has come in, and instead of the stone falling on the head of someone, it falls upon the hand and it will not kill anybody. This is an intervention from another plane, from a conscious will that enters into the more or less unconscious mechanism.
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Imagine the world as a single whole and, in a certain sense, finite, limited but containing potentially innumerable possibilities of which the combinations are so numerous that they are equivalent to an infinite (you must be careful with words, however; I am very much cramped by words, they do not express exactly what I mean). So, the universe is objectified by the Divine Consciousness, by the Supreme, according to certain determined laws of which we shall speak later. The universe is a single whole, in the sense that it is the Divine—it does not contain the whole of the Divine, but it is as though the Divine deployed Himself so as to objectify Himself; that is the ''raison d'être'' of the manifestation of the universe. It is as if the divine Consciousness wandered into all divine possibilities following a path it had chosen. Imagine then a multitude of possibles of which all the possible combinations are equivalent to an infinite. The divine Consciousness is essentially free—It wanders therein and objectifies Itself. The path traversed is free in the midst of an infinite multiplicity which is at the same time pre-existent and absolutely undetermined according to the action of the free divine Will. It may be conceived that this Will, being free, is able to change the course of the deployment, change the path and, although everything is pre-existent and consequently inevitable, the road, the path is free and absolutely unexpected. These changes of the route, if one may say so, can therefore change the relations between things and circumstances, and consequently the determinism is changed. This change of the circuit is called "the effect of the Grace"; well, through the aid of the Grace, if the Grace decides it, things can change, the course can be different. Things can change their places and instead of following a certain circuit follow another. A circumstance which, according to a particular determinism, should occur at a certain place ahead, for instance, would instead occur behind, and so on. The relations between things consequently change. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/1-march-1951#p4</ref>
The difference between knowledge ==Grace and ignorance is a grace of the Spirit; the breath of divine Power blows where it lists and fills today one and tomorrow another with the word or the puissance. If the potter shapes one pot more perfectly than another, the merit lies not in the vessel but the maker. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-master-of-the-work#p12</ref>Love==
=How to Receive ''Q.Are Divine Love and Grace=the same thing?''
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Who is worthy or unworthy in front of the =How to Receive 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> <center>~</center> The Grace is equally for all. But each one receives it according to his sincerity. It does not depend on outward circumstances but on a sincere aspiration and openness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p29</ref> <center>~</center>=
Fear stems from a sense The supreme Power has descended into the most material consciousness but it has stood there behind the density of inferiority.Howeverthe physical veil demanding before manifestation, before its great open workings can begin, that the conditions of the supreme Grace shall be there , real and effective. And the first condition is a way to that the Truth shall be free from accepted within you entirely and without reserve before it: it is to have faith can be manifested in the Divine Grace material being and to rely on It to protect you in all circumstancesNature. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p35-p36</ref>
A total surrender, an exclusive self-opening to the divine influence, a constant and integral choice of the Truth and rejection of the falsehood, these are the only conditions made. But these must be fulfilled entirely, without reserve, without any evasion or pretence, simply and sincerely down to the most physical consciousness and its workings. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/12/integral-yoga#p96,p97</ref>
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No sadhak ought ever Let us offer our will to indulge thoughts of unfitness and hopelessness—they are quite irrelevant because the Divine Grace; it is not one's personal fitness and worthiness the Grace 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 Forceaccomplishes all. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/thefaith-call-andin-the-capacity#p31</ref> ==Shed the Ego== How many blows are needed in life for one to know to the very depths that one is ''nothing'', that one can do ''nothing'' that one ''does not exist'', that one is ''nothing'', that there is no entity without the divine Consciousness -grace-and the Grace. From the moment one knows it, it is over; all the difficulties have gone. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954help#p37p50</ref>
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Let The Grace is always there, eternally present and active, but Sri Aurobindo says that it is extremely difficult for us offer our will to the Divine Grace; be in a condition to receive it, keep it and make use of what it is the Grace that accomplishes allgives us. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1416/faith-in17-theoctober-divine-grace-and1960-help1#p50p3</ref>
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In the final analysis everything really depends on the Divine Grace and we should look at the future with confidence and serenity, progressing at the same time as quickly as we can. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p43</ref>
Have an absolute trust in ==By Being Aware of the Grace, set aside your little personality and allow Workings of the Divine Grace to act. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p27</ref>==
It is not indispensable that the Grace should work in a way that the human mind can understand, it generally doesn't: it works in its own "mysterious" way. At first usually it works behind the veil, preparing things, not manifesting. Afterwards it may manifest, but the sadhak does not understand very well what is happening. Finally, when he is capable of it, he both feels and understands or at least begins to do so. Some feel and understand from the first or very early; but that is not the ordinary case. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p8</ref>
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It People are not aware of the workings of Grace except when there has been some danger, that is , when all seems lost there has been the beginning of an accident or the accident has taken place and they have escaped it. Then they become aware. But never are they aware that if, for instance, a journey or anything whatever, passes without any accident, it is an infinitely higher Grace. That is, the harmony is established in such a way that all nothing can be savedhappen. But that seems to them quite natural. When you have lost confidence in your personal powerpeople are ill and get well quickly, then you should have faith in the Divine Grace. they are full of gratitude; but never do they think of being grateful when they are well; and yet that is a much greater miracle! <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1405/faith-in-the-divine23-grace-anddecember-help1953#p38p52</ref>
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When you are in a particular set of circumstances and certain events take place, these events often oppose your desire or what seems best to you, and often you happen to regret this and say to yourself, "Ah! how good it would have been if it were otherwise, if it had been like this or like that", for little things and big things.... Then years pass by, events are unfolded; you progress, become more conscious, understand better, and when you look back, you notice―first with astonishment, then later with a smile―that those very circumstances which seemed to you quite disastrous or unfavourable, were exactly the best thing that could have happened to you to make you progress as you should have. And if you are the least bit wise you tell yourself, "Truly, the divine Grace is infinite."
...to be gratefulSo, never to forget when this wonderful Grace sort of the Supreme who leads each one thing has happened to his divine goal by the shortest waysyou a number of times, you begin to understand that in spite of himselfthe blindness of man and deceptive appearances, his ignorance and misunderstandingthe Grace is at work everywhere, so that at every moment it is the best possible thing that happens in spite of the ego, its protests and its revoltsstate the world is in at that moment. <ref>https://incarnatewordIt is because our vision is limited or even because we are blinded by our own preferences that we cannot discern that things are like this.in/agenda/05/july-15-1964#p1</ref>
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When you let things work on their ownThen one lives in the Action and Presence of the Grace a life full of joy, there's... there's EVERYWHERE of wonder, with the feeling of a Consciousness marvellous strength, and at the same time with a Grace that do EVERYTHING trust so that EVERYTHING may go smoothlycalm, and that imbecility is what constantly upsets everything—oddly enough! Self-centered imbecilityso complete, that's right: what Sri Aurobindo called "the old mannothing can shake it any longer." <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/november-19-1969#p98</ref>
And when one is in this state of perfect receptivity and perfect adherence, one diminishes to that extent the resistance of the world to the divine Action; consequently, this is the best collaboration one can bring to the Action of the Divine. One understands what He wants. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/8-august-1956#p42,p43,p44,p45,p46</ref>
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People believe that the Grace means making everything smooth for all your life. It is not true.
The true spiritual or psychic vision is this, "Whatever I may be, my soul is a child of the Divine and must reach Grace works for the Divine sooner or later. I am imperfect but seek after the perfection realisation of the Divine in me your aspiration and that not I but the Divine Grace will bring about; if I keep everything is arranged to that, gain the Divine Grace itself will do all." The "I" has to take its proper place here as a small portion and instrument of the Divinemost prompt, something that is nothing without the Divine but with the Grace can be everything that the Divine wishes it to bequickest realisation. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/dealingthe-divine-withgrace-hostileand-attacksdifficulties#p55p20-p21</ref>
==Open to the Divine GraceBy Invoking==
And then, if you become aware that it is only ''Q. Does the Grace which can do that, that the situation in which you find yourself, from there intervention of the Grace alone can pull you out, can give you the solution and the strength to come out of it, then, quite naturally an intense aspiration awakes in you, through a consciousness which is translated into an opening. If you call, aspire, and if you hope to get an answer, you will quite naturally open yourself to the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954#p32</ref>?''
''A:'' When one calls? I think so. Anyway, not exclusively and solely. But certainly, yes, if one has faith in the Grace and an aspiration and if one does what a little child would when it runs to its mother and says: "Mamma, give me this", if one calls with that simplicity, if one turns to the Grace and says "Give me this", I believe it listens. Unless one asks for something that is not good for one, then it does not listen. If one asks from it something that does harm or is not favourable, it does not listen. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/18-november-1953#p38-p39</ref>
We must learn to rely only on the Divine Grace and to call for its help in all circumstances; then it will work out constant miracles. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p53</ref>
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The Grace is always with you; concentrate in your heart with a silent mind and you are sure also to receive the guidance and the help you aspire for. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p6</ref>
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''Q. But, Mother, when one prays sincerely for the intervention of the Grace, doesn't one expect a particular result?''
''A:'' Excuse me, that depends on the tenor of the prayer. If one simply invokes the Grace or the Divine, and puts oneself in His hands, one does not expect a particular result. To expect a particular result one must formulate one's prayer, must ask for something. If you have only a great aspiration for the divine Grace and evoke it, implore it, without asking it for anything precise, it is the Grace which will choose what it will do for you, not you. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/8-august-1956#p26,p27</ref>
It is quite true that it[A great wave (or sea) of calm and the constant consciousness of a vast and luminous Reality] is a grace sent and the only return needed for such a grace is acceptance, gratitude and to allow the Power that has touched the consciousness to develop what has to be developed in the being—by keeping oneself open to it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/experiences-of-the-self-the-one-and-the-infinite#p10</ref>==By Aspiration==
No one is fit—for all human beings are full of faults and incapacities—even the greatest sadhaks are not free. It is a question only of aspiration, of believing in the divine Grace and letting the Divine work in you, not making a refusal. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-call-and-the-capacity#p26</ref>
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To practise Yoga implies the will to overcome all attachments and turn to the Divine alone. The principal thing in the Yoga is to trust in However a man may stumble, the Divine Grace at every step, to direct the thought continually to the Divine and to offer oneself till the being opens will be there so long as he aspires for it and the Mother's force can be felt working in the Adharaend lead him through. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3231/thedealing-with-depression-mothersand-gracedespondency#p9p55</ref>
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Faith is certainly a gift given to us by the Divine Grace. It is like a door suddenly opening upon an eternal truth, through which we can see it, almost touch it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-july-1958#p4</ref> ==Faith and Trust in the Divine Grace== The Grace is always there ready to act but you must let it work and not resist its actionequally for all. The But each one condition required is faithreceives it according to his sincerity. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p8</ref>The Divine Grace is always with you It does not depend on outward circumstances but on a sincere aspiration and by your trust you allow its action to be effectiveopenness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p3p29</ref>
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It is not that [yoga relying on tapasya], but the soul's demand for a higher Truth or a higher life that is indispensable. Where that is, the Divine Grace whether believed in or not, will intervene. If you believe, that hastens and facilitates things; if you cannot yet believe, still the soul's aspiration will justify itself with whatever difficulty and struggle. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p22</ref>
It is in proportion to our trust in the Divine that the Divine Grace can act for us and help. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p4</ref>==By Opening==
And then, if you become aware that it is only the Grace which can do that, that the situation in which you find yourself, from there the Grace alone can pull you out, can give you the solution and the strength to come out of it, then, quite naturally an intense aspiration awakes in you, a consciousness which is translated into an opening. If you call, aspire, and if you hope to get an answer, you will quite naturally open yourself to the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954#p32</ref>
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On the other hand the belief in the Divine and the Grace and Yoga and the Guru etcDo not allow these [of unfitness] ideas to gain on you or even to occupy your mind. It is not _a priori_, because it rests on a great mass of human experience which has been accumulating through by their merit or their effort or the centuries and millenniums as well as capacity they show that men advance in the personal intuitive perception. Therefore it is an intuitive perception which has been confirmed spiritual path, but by their opening to the experience of hundreds divine help and thousands of those who grace. For that you must have tested it before methe confidence that whatever your own weakness, the grace will not fail you. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2831/doubtimperfections-and-faithperiods-of-arrest#p22p27</ref>
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When we trust It is quite true that it [a great wave (or sea) of calm and the constant consciousness of a vast and luminous Reality] is a grace sent and the only return needed for such a grace is acceptance, gratitude and to allow the Power that has touched the consciousness to develop what has to be developed in the Divine's Grace we get an unfailing couragebeing—by keeping oneself open to it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1430/trustexperiences-inof-the-divineself-the-graceone-and-helpthe-infinite#p12p10</ref>
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To practise Yoga implies the will to overcome all attachments and turn to the Divine alone. The principal thing in the Yoga is to trust in the Divine Grace at every step, to direct the thought continually to the Divine and to offer oneself till the being opens and the Mother's force can be felt working in the Adhara. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#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-==By Faith and-help#p15</ref>Trust==
The Grace is always there ready to act but you must let it work and not resist its action. The one condition required is faith. <ref>https://incanateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p8</ref>
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We "At the very moment when everything seems to go from bad to worse, it is then that we must learn to rely only on make a supreme act of faith and know that the Divine Grace and to call for its help in all circumstances; then it will work out constant miraclesnever fail us. " <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1415/faithcomments-inon-thenew-divine-grace-andyear-helpmessages#p53p9</ref>
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The Grace will never fail us―such is infinite for him who sincerely trusts the Gracefaith we must keep constantly in our heart. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trustfaith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p1p15</ref>
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The ...even if one has no knowledge at all but has trust in the divine Grace , if one has the faith that there is something in the world like the divine Grace, and that this something can answer a prayer, an aspiration, an invocation, then, after making one's mental formation, if one offers it to the help are always there for all who aspire for them Grace and puts one's trust in it, asks it to intervene and their power is limitless when received with has the faith and confidencethat it will intervene, then indeed one has a chance of success. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1408/faith-in-the-divine-grace8-andaugust-help1956#p7p24</ref>
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It is only by remaining perfectly peaceful and calm with an unshakable confidence and faith Put your trust in the grace of the One and Divine Grace which has already touched you and opened its door and rely on it for all that you will allow circumstances is to be as good as they can be. ''The very best happens always'' to those who have put their entire trust in the Divine and in the Divine alonecome. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1430/the-divinevalue-graceof-and-difficultiesexperiences#p1p7</ref>
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In the final analysis everything really depends on Faith is certainly a gift given to us by the Divine Grace and we should look at the future with confidence and serenity. It is like a door suddenly opening upon an eternal truth, progressing at the same time as quickly as through which we cansee it, almost touch it. <ref>https://incarnateword.As in/cwm/14/faith-everything else in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p43</ref> ==Soul’s Aspiration== ascent of humanity, there is the necessity—especially at the beginning—of personal effort. It is not possible thatin some exceptional circumstances, for reasons which completely elude our intelligence, faith may come almost accidentally, quite unexpectedly, almost without ever having been solicited, but the soul's demand for most frequently it is an answer to a higher Truth or yearning, a higher life need, an aspiration, something in the being that is indispensableseeking and longing, even though not in a very conscious and systematic way. Where that is, the Divine Grace whether believed But in or notany case, will intervene. If you believewhen faith has been granted, that hastens and facilitates things; if you cannot yet believewhen one has had this sudden inner illumination, still in order to preserve it constantly in the soulactive consciousness individual effort is altogether indispensable. One must ''hold on'' to one's aspiration faith, ''will justify itself with whatever difficulty and struggle'' one's faith; one must seek it, cultivate it, protect it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2909/bhakti9-yogajuly-and-vaishnavism1958#p22p4,p5</ref>
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It If one has within him faith in the divine grace, that the divine grace is a question only of aspirationwatching over him, of believing in and that no matter what happens the divine Grace grace is there, watching over him, one may keep this faith all one's life and always; and with this one can pass through all dangers, face all difficulties, and nothing stirs, for you have the faith and letting the Divine work in divine grace is with you. It is an infinitely stronger, more conscious, more lasting force which does not depend upon the conditions of your physical build, does not making a refusaldepend upon anything except the divine grace alone, and hence it leans on the Truth and nothing can shake it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2905/the7-call-and-theoctober-capacity1953#p26</ref>
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To receive the divine grace, not only must one It is when all seems lost that all can be saved. When you have a great aspiration, but also a sincere humility and an absolute trust. <ref>https://incarnateword.lost confidence in/cwm/16/17-october-1960-1#p5</ref> ==Invoke the Divine Grace== ''Does the intervention of the Grace come through a call?'' When one calls? I think so. Anywayyour personal power, not exclusively and solely. But certainly, yes, if one has then you should have faith in the Divine Grace and an aspiration and if one does what a little child would when it runs to its mother and says: "Mamma, give me this", if one calls with that simplicity, if one turns to the Grace and says "Give me this", I believe it listens. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/0514/18faith-novemberin-1953the-divine-grace-and-help#p38-p39</ref>
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The Grace What is necessary is always with you; concentrate in your heart with not to listen to what resists, not to believe what contradicts—to have trust, a real trust, a silent mind and confidence which makes you are sure also give yourself fully without calculating, without bargaining. Trust! The trust that says, "Do this, do this for me, I leave it to receive the guidance and the help you aspire forYou. " <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1409/faith-in-the-divine-grace12-andnovember-help1958#p6p17</ref>
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A state of Grace is prepared Have an absolute trust in the individual often behind thick veils by means not calculable by the mind Grace, set aside your little personality and when allow the state of Grace comes then the Grace itself actsto act; it will make you do what is needed and everything will be all right. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-guidancehelp#p4p27</ref>
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Gratitude: it It is you who open all the closed doors and let the Grace which saves penetrate deeply. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/gratitude#p1</ref>Yes, faith proportion to our trust in the Divine that the Divine Grace always brings about its interventioncan act for us and help. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faithtrust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p9p4</ref>
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All depends on the intensity of The Grace and the help are always there for all who aspire for them and their power is limitless when received with faith and the firmness of the right attitudeconfidence. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p4</ref> ==Call of the Divine Grace== Call of the Divine Grace: not noisy but persistent and very perceptible to those who know how to listen. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p31</ref> ==Keep the Divine Grace== The Grace is always there, eternally present and active, but Sri Aurobindo says that it is extremely difficult for us to be in a condition to receive it, keep it and make use of what it gives us. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/17-october-1960-1#p3p7</ref>
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It is quite true that it [A great wave (or sea) of only by remaining perfectly peaceful and calm with an unshakable confidence and faith in the constant consciousness of a vast and luminous Reality] is a grace sent and the only return needed for such a grace is acceptance, gratitude and to Divine Grace that you will allow the Power that has touched the consciousness circumstances to develop what has be as good as they can be. ''The very best happens always'' to be developed those who have put their entire trust in the Divine and in the being—by keeping oneself open to itDivine alone. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3014/experiences-of-the-selfdivine-the-onegrace-and-the-infinitedifficulties#p10p1</ref>
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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>
Besides I have always seen that there has been really a long unobserved preparation before ==By Shedding the Grace intervenes and, also, after it has intervened one has still to put in a good deal of work to keep and develop what one has got—as it is in all other things—until there is the complete siddhi. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p18</ref>Ego==
The true spiritual or psychic vision is this, "Whatever I may be, my soul is a child of the Divine and must reach the Divine sooner or later. I am imperfect but seek after the perfection of the Divine in me and that not I but the Divine Grace will bring about; if I keep to that, the Divine Grace itself will do all." The "I" has to take its proper place here as a small portion and instrument of the Divine, something that is nothing without the Divine but with the Grace can be everything that the Divine wishes it to be. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/dealing-with-hostile-attacks#p55</ref>
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If How many blows are needed in life for one has within him faith in to know to the divine grace, very depths that the divine grace one is watching over him''nothing'', and that no matter what happens the divine grace is there, watching over him, one may keep this faith all can do ''nothing'' that one's life and always; and with this 'does not exist'', that one can pass through all dangers, face all difficulties, and is ''nothing stirs'', for you have the faith and the divine grace that there is with you. It is an infinitely stronger, more conscious, more lasting force which does not depend upon the conditions of your physical build, does not depend upon anything except no entity without the divine grace alone, Consciousness and hence it leans on the Truth and nothing can shake it. <ref>https://incarnatewordGrace.in/cwm/05/7-october-1953#p26</ref> ==Be Aware of From the Divine Grace’s Works== It is not indispensable that the Grace should work in a way that the human mind can understand, it generally doesn't: it works in its own "mysterious" way. At first usually moment one knows it works behind the veil, preparing things, not manifesting. Afterwards it may manifest, but the sadhak does not understand very well what is happening. Finally, when he is capable of it, he both feels and understands or at least begins to do so. Some feel and understand from the first or very earlyover; but that is not all the ordinary casedifficulties have gone. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2906/the15-divine-grace-andseptember-guidance1954#p8p37</ref>
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People are not aware It's narrowness of the workings of Grace except when there has been some dangerconsciousness, that isit's division. When you let things work on their own, when there has been the beginning of an accident or the accident has taken place and they have escaped it's.. Then they become aware. But never are they aware that if, for instance, there's EVERYWHERE a Consciousness and a journey or anything whatever, passes without any accident, it is an infinitely higher Grace. That is, the harmony is established in such a way that nothing can happen. But do EVERYTHING so that seems to them quite natural. When people are ill and get well quicklyEVERYTHING may go smoothly, they are full of gratitude; but never do they think of being grateful when they are well; and yet that imbecility is a much greater miraclewhat constantly upsets everything—oddly enough! Self-centered imbecility, that's right: what Sri Aurobindo called "the old man." <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/0510/23november-december19-19531969#p52p98</ref>
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The psychic does not demand or desire; it aspires; it does not make conditions for its surrender or withdraw if its aspiration is not immediately satisfied—for the psychic has complete trust in the Divine or in the guru and can wait for the right time or the hour of the divine grace.
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When you are in a particular set of circumstances and certain events take place, these events often oppose your desire or what seems best to you, and often you happen to regret this and say to yourself, "Ah! how good it would have been if it were otherwise, if it had been like this or like that", for little things and big things.... Then years pass by, events are unfolded; you progress, become more conscious, understand better, and when you look back, you notice―first with astonishment, then later with a smile―that those very circumstances which seemed to you quite disastrous or unfavourable, were exactly the best thing that could have happened to you to make you progress as you should have. And if you are the least bit wise you tell yourself, "Truly, the divine Grace is infinite." So, when this sort of thing has happened to you a number of times, you begin to understand that in spite of the blindness of man and deceptive appearances, the Grace is at work everywhere, so that at every moment it is the best possible thing that happens in the state the world is in at that moment. It is because our vision is limited or even because we are blinded by our own preferences that we cannot discern that things are like this. But when one begins to see it, one enters upon a state of wonder which nothing can describe. For behind the appearances one perceives this Grace―infinite, wonderful, all-powerful―which knows all, organises all, arranges all, and leads us, whether we like it or not, whether we know it or not, towards the supreme goal, that is, union with the Divine, the awareness of the Godhead and union with Him. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/8-august-1956#p42-p44</ref> ==No Insistence By Not Insisting on the Grace==
After all, one has not a ''right'' to call on the Divine to manifest himself; it can come only as a response to a spiritual or psychic state of consciousness or to a long course of sadhana rightly done; or, if it comes before that or without any apparent reason, it is a grace; but one cannot demand or compel grace; grace is something spontaneous which wells out from the Divine Consciousness as a free flower of its being. The bhakta looks for it, but he is ready to wait in perfect reliance, even if need be all his life, knowing that it will come, never varying in his love and surrender because it does not come now or soon. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p24</ref>
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Your thesis was, "Once I have said also that want God, God must manifest to me, come to me, at least give glimpses of himself to me, the Grace real solid concrete experiences, not mere vague things which I can't understand or value. God'cans Grace must answer my call for it, whether I yet deserve it or not—or else there is no Grace." God'' at any moment act suddenlys Grace may indeed do that in certain cases, but over that one has where does the "must" come in? If God must do it, it is no controllonger God's Grace, because it comes by but God's duty or an incalculable Will which sees things that the mind cannot seeobligation or a contract or a treaty. It is precisely The Divine looks into the reason why one should never despair,—that heart and also because no sincere aspiration removes the veil at the moment which he knows to be the Divine can fail in the endright moment to do it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divinebhakti-graceyoga-and-guidancevaishnavism#p22p12</ref>
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Your thesis wasGrace may sometimes bring undeserved or apparently undeserved fruits, "Once I want God, God must manifest to me, come to me, at least give glimpses of himself to me, the real solid concrete experiences, not mere vague things which I but one can't understand or value. God's demand Grace must answer my call for as a right and privilege—for then it, whether I yet deserve it or not—or else there is no would not be Grace." GodAs you have seen one can's Grace may indeed do t claim that in certain cases, but where does one has only to shout and the "answer must" come in? If God must do it, it is no longer God's Grace, but God's duty or an obligation or a contract or . Besides I have always seen that there has been really a treaty. The Divine looks into long unobserved preparation before the heart Grace intervenes and removes the veil at the moment which he knows , also, after it has intervened one has still to be the right moment put in a good deal of work to do keep and develop what one has got—as itis in all other things—until there is the complete siddhi. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhaktithe-divine-yogagrace-and-vaishnavismguidance#p12p18</ref>
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"But whatever you ask for or whatever your effort, you must feel, even while trying your best, using knowledge or putting forth power that the result depends upon the Divine Grace." <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/5-april-1951#p12</ref>
==Be By Being Grateful to the Divine Grace== The best possible way is to allow the Divine Grace to work in you, never to oppose it, never to be ungrateful and turn against it—but to follow it always to the goal of Light and Peace and unity and Ananda. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p24</ref>
Gratitude: it is you who open all the closed doors and let the Grace which saves penetrate deeply. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/gratitude#p1</ref>
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Let us give ourselves without reserve ...to be grateful, never to forget this wonderful Grace of the Supreme who leads each one to his divine goal by the Divineshortest ways, so best shall we receive in spite of himself, his ignorance and misunderstanding, in spite of the Divine Graceego, its protests and its revolts. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmagenda/1405/thejuly-divine15-grace1964#p28p1</ref>
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Gratitude: A loving recognition of The best possible way is to allow the Divine Grace received from to work in you, never to oppose it, never to be ungrateful and turn against it—but to follow it always to the Divinegoal of Light and Peace and unity and Ananda. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/gratitudethe-divine-grace-and-guidance#p2-p3p24</ref>
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And later—you must pay great attention to this (''Mother puts her finger on her lips'')—the Grace will answer you, the Grace will pull you out of the trouble, the Grace will give you the solution to your problem or will help you to get out of your difficulty. But once you are free from trouble and have come out of your difficulty, don't forget that it is the Grace which pulled you out, and don't think it is yourself. For this, indeed, is the important point. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954#p33</ref>
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One must have a great purity and a great intensity in one’s self-giving, and that absolute trust in the supreme wisdom of the divine Grace, that It knows better than we do what is good forus, and all that. Then if one offers one’s aspiration to It, truly gives it with enough intensity, the results are marvellous. But one must know how to see them, for when things are realised mostpeople find it absolutely natural, they don’t even see why and how it has happened, and they tell themselves, “Yes, naturally it had to be like that.” So they lose the joy of...the joy of gratitude,because, in the last analysis, if one can be filled with gratitude and thanksgiving for the divine Grace, it puts the finishing touch, and at each step one comes to see that things are exactly what they had to be and the best that could be. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/13-july-1955#p44</ref>
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All discoveries are always graces—wonderful graces. When you discover that you can't do anything, when you discover that you are a fool, when you discover that you have no capacity, when you discover that you are so petty and mean and stupid, well... "Oh, Lord, I thank You so much, how good You are to show me all this!" And then, it's over. Because the minute you discover it, you say, "Now this is up to You. You will do what has to be done for all this to change." And the best part of it is that it does change! It does change. When you do like this (''gesture of offering to the Heights''), sincerely: "Oh, take it, take it, take it, rid me of it, let me be... only You"... It's wonderful. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/january-31-1966#p48-p49</ref>
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Right use of the granted Grace: no deformation, no diminution, no exaggeration―a clear sincerity. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p30</ref>
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''Q. What is the way to accept the Grace with gratitude?''
''What is the way to accept the Grace with gratitude?A:''Ah! First of all you must feel the need for it.
Ah! First of all you must feel the need for it.This is the most important point. It is to have a certain inner humility which makes you aware of your helplessness without the Grace, that truly, without it you are incomplete and powerless.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954#p28,p29,p30</ref><center>~</center>
An absolute faith and trust in the Grace is, in the last analysis, the Supreme Wisdom. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p31</ref>
=How to Walk the Path of Sadhana?= ==Be Ready with Full Consent== 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>
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>
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Without 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 Divine nothing can psychic being over the physical-being will also be done, but for a result of the full divine Grace . And the mind, if it wants to manifest the sadhak must make himself readybe 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/cwsacwm/2907/the-divine-grace9-andfebruary-guidance1955#p10p22</ref>
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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>
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 ==By Reliance on the Divine Grace that it can be done. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-call-and-the-capacity#p29</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. 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.
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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>
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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><center>~</center>The complete consecration is undoubtedly not an easy matterAnd once you have seen this, and it might take an almost indefinitely long time if you had feel you are never equal to do it all by yourself, by your own independent effort. But when the Divine's Grace is with for you should never forget it is not exactly like that, never have any fears, any anguish, any regrets, any recoils... or even suffering. With If one were in union with this Grace, if one saw It everywhere, one would begin living a little push from the Divine now and thenlife of exultation, a little push in this direction and in thatof all-power, the work becomes comparatively quite easyof infinite happiness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/0308/surrender1-selfaugust-offering-and-consecration1956#p1p51</ref>
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You must realise that these moods are attacks which should One cannot be rejected perfect in discrimination at once—for they repose once or in rejection either. The one indispensable thing is to go on nothing but suggestions of self-distrust and incapacity which have no meaningtrying sincerely till there comes the full success. So long as there is complete sincerity, since it is by the Divine Grace of the Divine will be there and assist at every moment on the aid of a Force greater than your own, not by personal capacity and worth that you can attain the goal of the sadhanaway. 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-capacitysincerity#p23p20</ref>
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Vital difficulties are Everything should be for the common lot sake of every human being 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 of every sadhak—they are equanimity and patience in the persistent aspiration, then it is all right. But it must not be extended to be met with a quiet determination cover slackness and confidence indifference in the Divine’s Graceaspiration and endeavour. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3129/the-difficultiesdivine-ofgrace-and-yogaguidance#p13</ref>
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Face all these things quietly and firmly with perseverance I ask you to have faith in the Divine, in the Divine Grace, in the endeavour truth of the sadhana. Trust firmly , in the eventual triumph of the spirit over its mental and vital and physical difficulties, in the Divine Grace Path and the Divine Grace will not fail youGuru, in the existence of things... <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidancefaith#p23p52</ref>
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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>
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>==By Progress==
One cannot be perfect in discrimination at once or in rejection either''Q. The one indispensable thing is to go on trying sincerely till there comes With the full success. So long as there is complete sincerity, touch of the Divine divine Grace will be there and assist at every moment on the way.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/sincerity#p20</ref>, how do difficulties become opportunities for progress?''
''A:'' 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>
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YesThe 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 solution is certainly Grace acts, the Divine Grace—it comes result may or may not be pleasant―it takes no account of itselfany human value, intervening suddenly or with an increasing force when all is readyit may even be a catastrophe from the ordinary and superficial point of view. Meanwhile But it is there behind all always the struggles, and "best for the unconquerable aspiration for individual. It is a blow that the light" of Divine sends so that progress may be made by leaps and bounds. The Grace is that which makes you speak is march swiftly towards the outward sign that it will intervenerealisation. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/the-difficultiesdivine-ofgrace-humanand-naturedifficulties#p32p23</ref>
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It For those who have given themselves to the Divine each difficulty that confronts them is in action, in effort, in the march forward that repose assurance of a new progress and thus must be found, taken as a gift from the true repose of complete trust in the divine Grace, of the absence of desires, of victory over egoism. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/0914/20the-divine-grace-marchand-1957difficulties#p11p17</ref>
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Through this apparent chaos a new and better order is being formed. But Later—much later—one day, looking back, we may see that everything that happened, even what seemed to see it one must have faith in us the worst, was a Divine Graceto make us advance on the way... <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1409/faith-in-the-divine-grace9-andjuly-help1958#p33p8</ref>
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Everything should be for the sake of the Divine, this also. As for leaving the result to the Divine, it All depends on what you mean by the phrasewant. If it implies dependence on you want Yoga, take ''all'' that happens as the expression of the Divine Grace leading you towards your goal, and equanimity and patience in the persistent aspiration, then it is all right. But it must not be extended try to cover slackness and indifference in understand the aspiration and endeavourlesson that circumstances give. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/the-divine-grace-and-guidancedifficulties#p13p15</ref>
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I ask you to have faith in the DivineIt is certain that for someone who has desires, when his desires are not satisfied, in it is a sign that the Divine Graceis with him and wants, in the truth of the sadhanathrough experience, in the eventual triumph of the spirit over its mental and vital and physical difficultiesto make him progress rapidly, in the Path by teaching him that a willing and spontaneous surrender to the Guru, Divine Will is a much surer way to be happy in the existence of things other peace and light than are written in the philosophy satisfaction of Haeckel or Huxley or Bertrand Russell, because if these things are not true, there is no meaning in the Yogaany desire. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2910/faithaphorism-175#p52p5</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! ]
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The only question is whether there is something behind all When the Grace acts on the anomalies of life which can respond individual, it gives to each the call and open itself with whatever difficulty till it maximum position according to what he 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 eyewhat he has realized. If it And then, there is there and when a super-grace, as it becomes active were, which works in fronta few exceptional cases, then the Compassion can actwhich places you not according to what you are but according to what you are to become, though which means that the full action universal cosmic position is ahead 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 individual's progress.And it is then that is not yet ready to receiveyou should keep silent and fall on your knees. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsaagenda/2901/thejuly-divine2-grace-and1958#p14-guidance#p4p16</ref>
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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>
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 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>
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Psychic life Bhakti in the universe is a work of the divine Grace. Psychic growth its fullness is a work of the divine Grace and the ultimate power of the psychic being over the physicalnothing but an entire self-being will also be a result of the divine Gracegiving. 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> ==Help from the Divine Grace== 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>
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The 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 help one a second's contact with that, then you can and should receive is that 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 which formulates itself in everyone according to his own needand let it do everything. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/2412-septembernovember-1958#p19p16</ref>
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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.
For the Grace to have In other words: no ambition, no vanity, no pride. A sincere self-giving, a perfect sincere humility, and total result of its actionone is sheltered from all danger. There you are, the faith must be this is what I call being greater than one''total and perfects experience.'' <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1408/faith22-inaugust-the-divine-grace-and-help1956#p10p24,p25</ref>
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The divine Consciousness works alwaysIn any case, everywhere and in the same way. The divine Grace only thing which is really effective is active everywhereto will what the Divine wills, 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 keep an unshakable confidence in the Truth, trust in supreme compassion of the Divine Grace, trust in for through that it is always the divine Knowledge—this puts you in best that state of receptivity in which you can receive these things. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/25-november-1953#p6</ref> ==Deal with Obstacles== When physical disorder comes, one must not be afraidhappens; 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 best according to human ideas but the divine grace, it will settle in these cells as it establishes itself in best according to the depths of the being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal supreme Truth and Delight. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1514/fearthe-divine-grace-and-illnessdifficulties#p7p9-p10</ref>
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All And there is no other remedy. It's the circumstances of life are arranged to teach us thatonly remedy, beyond mindfor ''everybody'' without exception. To all those who suffer, faith in it is the Divine Grace gives us the strength same thing that has to go through all trials, to overcome be said: all weaknesses and find suffering is the contact with sign that the Divine Consciousness which gives us surrender is not only peace and joy but also physical balance and good healthtotal.[Based on Aphorism 382—For nearly forty years behind the wholly good I was weakly Then, when you feel in constitution; I suffered constantly from the smaller and the greater ailments and mistook this curse for you a burden "bang", like that Nature had laid upon me. When I renounced the aid , instead of medicinessaying, "Oh, this is bad" or "This circumstance is difficult," you say, then they began to depart from me like disappointed parasites"My surrender is not perfect. " Then only I understood what a mighty force was it's all right. And then you feel the natural health within me Grace that helps you and how much mightier yet the Will leads you, and Faith exceeding mind which God meant to be the divine support of our life in this bodyyou go on.]<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1015/aphorism11-may-3821967#p2p3</ref>
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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>
''In the present growing conflict what should be our attitude?''==By Peace==Faith It is only by remaining perfectly peaceful and total calm with an unshakable confidence and faith in the Divine's Gracethat you will allow circumstances to be as good as they can be. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-helpdifficulties#p35-p36p1</ref>
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The grace Keep a ''cool head'', strong and ''very quiet nerves'', and protection are always with you. When a ''complete trust'' 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 disturbancesGrace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/vigilancetrust-resolutionin-willthe-anddivine-thegrace-divineand-help#p71-p72p20</ref>
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Have faith. There is no disease which cannot be cured by Whatever happens we must remain quiet and trust the Divine 's Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1514/curetrust-byin-the-divine-grace-and-help#p3p18</ref>
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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 only thing I can suggest about diseases is =How Not to call down peace. Keep the mind away Distance 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 Divine 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>=
But it is not the Grace that recedes, it is he himself who pushes It away, that is, he has put a distance between himself and the Grace. In fact, even "pushing away" doesn't give the correct picture... In one case, you see, he has taken this particular attitude, but the phenomenon is the same; that is, there is a kind of psychological distance created between the Grace and the individual. And due to this psychological distance the individual cannot receive the Grace and feels that It is not there. But It is there, in fact; only, as he has established this distance between the two, he doesn't feel It any longer. This is the real phenomenon. It isn't that the Grace goes away, it isn't even that he has the power to push It away, for if It doesn't want to go, no matter how much he tries, It won't go. But he makes himself incapable of feeling It and receiving its effect. He creates a psychological barrier between himself and the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/7-july-1954#p96</ref>
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Once moreOur senses can discover no visible presence of the Divine, the lack our intellect can do without any idea of faith its intervention—but it is another experience than that of the human mind brings complications intellect and pain where with a quiet faith in the Divine Guidance all could be very simple and easysenses which once it is there will no longer let us escape from the Presence or refuse to see the intervening Will or Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-helpguidance#p11p2</ref>
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You answer to all the contrary forcesStrictly speaking, the contrary movements, Grace does not withdraw; people make it impossible for themselves to receive it. But you have only to take the attacksright attitude and keep it, the misunderstandings, the bad wills, with the same smile so that comes from full confidence in the Divine Grace. And that is the ''only'' way out, there is no othercan once more do its saving work. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1517/1117-mayjuly-19671936#p3p2</ref>
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Here, for each work given, the full strength and Grace are always given at the same time to do the work as it has to be done. If you do not feel the strength and the Grace it proves that there is some mistake in your attitude. The faith is lacking or you have fallen back on old tracks and old creeds and thus you lose all receptivity. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/1-october-1952#p1</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>==By Overcoming Obstacles==
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>
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With trust in the The Divine's Grace all obstacles and Power can be surmounteddo everything, but with the full assent of the sadhak. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-To learn to give that full assent is the-divine-grace-and-help#p10</ref> ==Path whole meaning of Progress== ''With the touch sadhana. It may take time either because of ideas in 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 mistakemind, you are desires in great difficulty: then, if you have faith, if you have trust the vital or inertia in the divine Gracephysical consciousness, 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 these things have to be changed, and can be removed with this help the aid or by calling in the action 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 forwardDivine Force. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0629/21the-divine-grace-julyand-1954guidance#p42-p43p11</ref>
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The Grace There is something that pushes you towards the goal to no reason why suffering should be attainedindispensable for making progress. Do not try to judge it You bring the suffering on yourself 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 wrong ideas of any human value, it may even be a catastrophe from the ordinary mind and superficial point by the revolts of viewthe vital. But The Mother's grace and love are there, but the mind refuses to recognise it is always the best for the individual. It If there is a blow that confidence, if the Divine sends so that progress mind and vital consent to surrender and have full faith and reliance, then there may be made by leaps and bounds. The Grace difficulties but there is that which makes you march swiftly towards the realisationno suffering. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1431/theresistances-divine-gracesufferings-and-difficultiesfalls#p23p15</ref>
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Man is a mass Face all these [''inner disturbances''] things quietly and firmly with perseverance in the endeavour of imperfections—it is only by the divine sadhana. Trust firmly in the Divine Grace that he reaches and the DivineGrace will not fail you. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2829/religionthe-divine-grace-and-yogaguidance#p6p23</ref>
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For those who 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 given themselves to no meaning, since it is by the Grace of the Divine each difficulty and the aid of a Force greater than your own, not by personal capacity and worth that confronts them is you can attain the assurance goal of a new progress the sadhana. You have to remember that and thus must be taken as a gift dissociate yourself from the Gracethese suggestions when they come, never accept or yield to them. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/the-divinecall-graceand-andthe-difficultiescapacity#p17p23</ref>
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It is certain All the circumstances of life are arranged to teach us that for someone who has desires, when his desires are not satisfiedbeyond mind, it is a sign that faith in the Divine Grace is with him and wants, gives us the strength to go through experienceall trials, to make him progress rapidly, by teaching him that a willing overcome all weaknesses and spontaneous surrender to find the contact with the Divine Will is a much surer way to be happy in Consciousness which gives us not only peace and light than the satisfaction of any desire. [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 joy but also physical balance and failure are evil; I sometimes think that when they come, they are our supreme momentary goodhealth. 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-175382#p5p2</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.]
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''Q. In the present growing conflict what should be our attitude?''
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 ''A:'' Faith and by the revolts of total confidence in the vital. The MotherDivine'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 sufferingGrace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3114/resistancesfaith-sufferingsin-the-divine-grace-and-fallshelp#p15p35-p36</ref>
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When the Grace acts on the individual, it gives to each the maximum position according to what he is The grace and what he has realizedprotection are always with you.And then, there is a super-grace, as it were, which works When in a few exceptional cases, which places you any inner or outer difficulty or trouble do not according allow it to what oppress you are but according to what you are to become, which means ; take refuge with the Divine Force that the universal cosmic position is ahead of the individual's progressprotects.And it is then If you do that always with faith and sincerity, you will find something opening in you should keep silent which will always remain calm and fall on your kneespeaceful in spite of all superficial disturbances. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agendacwsa/0131/julyvigilance-2resolution-1958will-and-the-divine-help#p14p71-p16p72</ref>
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Leave You answer to all care to the contrary forces, the contrary movements, the attacks, the misunderstandings, the bad wills, with the same smile that comes from full confidence in the DivineGrace. And that is the ''s Grace, including your progressonly'' way out, and you will be in peacethere is no other. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1415/trust-in-the-divine-grace11-andmay-help1967#p23p3</ref>
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Later—much later—one day...it is this attitude; if you can tell yourself, "Good, perhaps the divine Grace deserves our confidence", looking backsimply this, we may see that everything that happenednothing else, you will avoid many difficulties, many. In fact this avoids many difficulties even what seemed to us the worstin ordinary life, was a Divine Grace to make us advance on the way.and many worries.And particularly here, if you can do that, well, you will see things which seemed formidably difficult dissolving suddenly like clouds.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/0906/922-julydecember-19581954#p8p41</ref>
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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>
==Surrender to the Divine Grace==
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>
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In any case ...the lack of faith of the human mind brings complications and whatever happens, always consider events as pain where with a gift from quiet faith in the Divine Grace which is leading you by swift paths towards the spiritual goal of your lifeGuidance all could be very simple and easy. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-difficultieshelp#p6p11</ref>
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The Divine does Do not want human beings allow any discouragement to suffer, but, come upon you and have no distrust of the Divine Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in their ignorance, human beings react /cwsa/29/faith#p54</ref>With trust in such a way that they bring suffering upon themselves. In peace, quietness and surrender is the only solutionDivine's Grace all obstacles can be surmounted. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-difficultieshelp#p13p10</ref>
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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>
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>===Illness===
If men had an absolute faith in the healing power of Grace, they would perhaps avoid many illnesses. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-386-387-388-389#p8</ref>
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''Q. Are illnesses tests in the Yoga?''
When difficulties besiege you, know that the Divine Grace is with you.<ref>https''A://incarnateword'' Tests? Not at all.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p19</ref>
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People believe You are given an illness purposely to make you progress? Surely it is not like that. Actually, you may turn the thing round and say that there are people whose aspiration is so constant, whose goodwill so total that whatever happens to them they take as a trial on the path to make progress. I knew people who, whenever they fell ill, took that as a proof of the Divine Grace means making everything smooth for all your lifeto help them to progress. It They told themselves: it is not truea good sign, I am going to find out the cause of my illness and I shall make the necessary progress. I knew a few of this kind and they moved on magnificently. There are others, on the contrary, who, far from making use of the thing, let themselves fall flat on the ground.The Grace works So much the worse for them. But the realisation of your aspiration and everything true attitude when one is ill, is to say: "There is something that is arranged not all right; I am going to gain see what it is." You must never think that the most promptDivine has purposely sent an illness, the quickest realisation. for that would truly be a very wicked Divine! <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1405/the22-divinejuly-grace-and-difficulties1953#p18,p19,p20-p21</ref>
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If you can tell yourself, "Good, perhaps Have faith. There is no disease which cannot be cured by the divine Divine Grace deserves our confidence", simply this, nothing else, you will avoid many difficulties, many. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/0615/22cure-by-the-decemberdivine-1954grace#p41p3</ref>
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In any case, the The only thing which is really effective I can suggest about diseases is to will what call down peace. Keep the mind away from the Divine wills, and to keep an unshakable confidence body by whatever means—whether by reading Sri Aurobindo's books or meditation. It is in this state that the supreme compassion of the Divine Grace, for through that acts. And it is always the best Grace alone that happens; not the best according cures. The medicines only give a faith to human ideas but the best according to the supreme Truthbody. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1415/thepeace-and-divinequiet-gracefaith-and-difficultiessurrender#p9-p10</ref>
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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>
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>===Doubt===
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For the Grace to help you, you must fulfil the conditions, and the very first condition is to reject all doubt, however slight. I repeat again: you would do well to read once more, carefully and attentively, the first two chapters of ''The Mother''.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/16-july-1936#p2</ref>
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One is either conscious of the power or peace or other force (light, ananda, knowledge, movements of the divine working) or, if not conscious of that, is aware of the results—either of these things is sufficient to show that one is open. To feel the grace descending and yet doubt whether it is not a vital imagination is a folly of the physical mind; a spiritual experience must be accepted as it is; if one questions at every moment whether an experience is an experience or Grace is grace or peace is peace or light is light, one will spend all the time in these useless and fantastic doubts instead of making a quiet and natural progress. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-physical-mind-and-sadhana#p26</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>===Falsehood===
But the supreme Grace will act only in the conditions of the Light and the Truth; it will not act in conditions laid upon it by the Falsehood and the Ignorance. For if it were to yield to the demands of the Falsehood, it would defeat its own purpose.
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And there is no other remedy. It's the only remedy, If behind your devotion and surrender you make a cover for ''everybody'' without exception. To all those who sufferyour desires, it is the same thing that has to be said: all suffering is the sign that the surrender is not total. Thenegoistic demands and vital insistences, when if you feel put these things in you a "bang", like that, instead place of saying, "Oh, this is bad" the true aspiration or "This circumstance is difficultmix them with it and try to impose them on the Divine Shakti," you say, "My surrender then it is not perfect." Then it's all right. And then you feel idle to invoke the divine Grace that helps to transform you and leads you, and you go on. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1532/11the-maymother-1967i#p3p6</ref>
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''Q. What does the defeat of its own purpose mean?''
Nothing ''A:'' Yes. This means that it would be going against its work, its own work. The Grace has come; well, it works for the realisation of the truth. If it accepts the conditions laid upon it by the falsehood, it can no longer do anything. Of this, you know, I could give you countless examples—of people who insist that things should happen in a particular way as far as they are concerned. They implore, at times even demand that things should be compared like that; and what they ask for is absolutely contrary to the peace truth; and if the Grace obeyed their demand, it would go against its own purpose and defeat its own purpose, that is, it would go against its own work and aim. It comes from here to realise the truth; if it obeys the falsehood, it turns its back on truth. And people, you see, very often put the cart before the horse—most often through ignorance and stupidity; but sometimes it is also through bad will that they insist on having their conditions fulfilled, that they go in for a total trust kind of bargaining in exchange for their surrender, and they do it.... Yes, many do it unconsciously—I said through ignorance and stupidity. There are others who do it consciously, and so they want their conditions fulfilled. They say, "If it is like this and like that..." And finally they go as far as to say to the GraceDivine, "If you are like this and like that, if you fulfil the conditions I lay down for you, I shall obey you!" They don't put it in this way because that would be too ridiculous, but they almost constantly do it. You see, they say, "Oh, the Divine is like this. The Divine does this. <ref>https://incarnatewordThe Divine must respond like this." And they continue in/cwm/14/trust-in-this way, and they are not aware that they are quite simply imposing their conceptions and also their desires on what the-divine-grace-Divine ought to be and-help#p22</ref> ==do. And so, when the Divine Grace Never Fails== The does not do what they want or does not fulfil the conditions they lay down, they say, "You are not the Divine Grace !" (''Laughter'') It is with us and never leaves us even when very simple. "You do not fulfil the appearances conditions I lay down, so you are darknot the Divine!" But they do it constantly, you know. So, naturally, if to please people, the Divine Grace were to submit to their demands, it would be working entirely against its own purpose and would destroy its own Work. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/1406/faith-in-the-divine-grace7-andjuly-help1954#p19p17,p18</ref>
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If you open yourself on one side or in one part to the Truth and on another side are constantly opening the gates to hostile forces, it is vain to expect that the divine Grace will abide with you. You must keep the temple clean if you wish to instal there the living Presence.
At If each moment of our lifetime the Power intervenes and brings in the Truth, you turn your back on it and call in all circumstances again the Grace falsehood that has been expelled, it is there helping us to surmount all difficulties. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-not the-divine-grace-Grace that you must blame for failing you, but the falsity of your own will and-help#p23</ref>the imperfection of your own surrender.
If you call for the Truth and yet something in you chooses what is false, ignorant and undivine or even simply is unwilling to reject it altogether, then always you will be open to attack and the Grace will recede from you. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mother-i#p7,p8,p9</ref>
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This is the common idea One says, "God has rejected me", you know. It is not that. You may not be able to feel the Grace, but It will always be there, even with the worst of sinners, even with the worst of criminals, to help him to change, to be cured of his crime and sin if he wants to be. It won't reject him, but It won't help him to do evil. It wouldn't be the Grace any longer. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/7-july-1954#p90</ref>
The closer you come to the Divine, the more you live under a shower of overwhelming evidence of His immeasurable =Living in Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p27</ref>=
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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>
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The Grace will never fail us―such 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 faith we must keep constantly in our heartprominence 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/cwmcwsa/1429/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-helpguru#p15p28</ref>
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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>
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>==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>
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Have full trust in the DivineKrishna'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 Divine's Grace will help you 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 all waysits 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/cwmcwsa/1429/trust-in-the-divinebhakti-graceyoga-and-helpvaishnavism#p14p54</ref>
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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>
Have faith and unshaken confidence. The Divine ==Mother’s Grace will do the rest. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p49</ref>==
=How Not to Distance from Who is worthy or unworthy in front of the Divine Grace=?
==Doubt Impedes Progress==All are children of the one and the same Mother.
One Her love is either conscious of the power or peace or other force (light, ananda, knowledge, movements of the divine working) or, if not conscious of that, is aware of the results—either of these things is sufficient to show that one is open. To feel the grace descending and yet doubt whether it is not a vital imagination is a folly of the physical mind; a spiritual experience must be accepted as it is; if one questions at every moment whether an experience is an experience or Grace is grace or peace is peace or light is light, one will spend equally spread over all the time in these useless and fantastic doubts instead of making a quiet and natural progress. <ref>https://incarnatewordthem.in/cwsa/31/the-physical-mind-and-sadhana#p26</ref>
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?''
If behind your devotion ''A:'' Both general and surrender you make a cover for your desires, egoistic demands and vital insistences, if you put these things in place of the true aspiration or mix them with it and try to impose them on the Divine Shakti, then it is idle to invoke the divine Grace to transform youspecial. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothermothers-igrace#p6p17-p18</ref><center>~</center>''Q. Do calm and equality come down from above by the Mother's Grace?''
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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 have seen too must attain to perfection immediately and without difficulties, otherwise it proves that very often a long tapasya the Mother's Grace is not with doubtful results prepares the moment of grace and the spontaneous downflowme. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2932/difficulties-and-the-divinemothers-grace#p3-and-guidance#p17p4</ref>
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For the Grace No sadhak ought ever to help you, you must fulfil the conditions, indulge thoughts of unfitness and the very first condition hopelessness—they are quite irrelevant because it is to reject all doubt, however slight. I repeat again: you would do well to read once more, carefully not one's personal fitness and attentivelyworthiness that makes one succeed, but the first two chapters of ''The Mother''. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/16-july-1936#p2</ref> ==Falsehood Creates a Barrier== If part s grace and power and the consent of the being surrenders, but another part reserves itself, follows its own way or makes its own conditions, then each time that that happens, you are yourself pushing soul to her grace and the divine Grace away from youworkings of her Force. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3229/the-mothercall-and-the-icapacity#p5p31</ref>
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If each time The grace of the Power intervenes Mother does not withdraw; open yourself and brings in the Truth, you turn your back on will feel it and call in again the falsehood that has been expelled, it is not the divine Grace that you must blame for failing you, but the falsity of your own will and the imperfection of your own surrender. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothermothers-igrace#p8p5</ref>
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If you call for the Truth ...a strong will to purification and an aspiration that does not flag and yet something in you chooses what is falsecease, ignorant and undivine or even simply if the Mother's grace is unwilling to reject it altogether, then always you will be open to attack there and the Grace will recede from youeffective. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothermothers-igrace#p9p7</ref>
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If you open yourself on one side or in one part to The effort demanded of the Truth sadhak is that of aspiration, rejection and on another side surrender. If these three are constantly opening done, the gates to hostile forces, it rest is vain to expect that come of itself by the grace of the Mother and the divine Grace will abide with working of her force in you. You must keep But of the three the temple clean if you wish to instal there most important is surrender of which the living Presencefirst necessary form is trust and confidence and patience in difficulty. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3231/theresistances-sufferings-motherand-ifalls#p7p28</ref>
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''Q. Is there any law of the working of the Mother's Grace?''
…there ''A:'' The more one develops the psychic, the more is a kind of psychological distance created between it possible for the Grace and the individual. And due to this psychological distance the individual cannot receive the Grace and feels that It is not there. But It is there, in fact; only, as he has established this distance between the two, he doesn't feel It any longeract. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0632/7the-julymothers-1954grace#p96p14-p15</ref>
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But if you take On the whole aspire for the growth of the attitude I have already spoken about psychic and throw its control of the blame upon rest of the Grace nature and for the Lightopening, if you say not to yourselfa larger vital consciousness, "There, it has gone and left me in but to the lurch", you may be sure that even thirty, forty, fifty years hence you will be still higher consciousness above. And at all stages open yourself to the same place, you will not have changed. There will always be something which will rise suddenly protection of the Mother and her grace and call on that for your safeguard and eat up your experience. And then, instead of progressing, you will be stuck there marking time because you cannot advanceguidance. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0430/26the-aprilintermediate-1951zone#p27p17</ref>
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This is the common idea One saysTo walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, "God has rejected me"only two things are needed, you know. It is not two that. You may not be able to feel the go always together—the Grace, but It will always be there, even with the worst of sinners, even with the worst Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of criminalsfaith, to help him to change, to be cured of his crime sincerity and sin if he wants to be. It won't reject him, but It won't help him to do evil. It wouldn't be the Grace any longersurrender. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0632/7the-julymother-1954iii#p90p1</ref>
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When one does The forces [adverse forces] can always be there so long as there is not repeat one's past mistakes, the divine power, the power transformation of the divine Grace, abolishes their consequences—their karma—in the being. But as long as mistakes are repeated nothing can be abolished, because one re-creates them at every minutewhole nature. When a person has made a serious error, say, a serious mistake (it They manifest themselves whenever they can be serious or not, but we are concerned primarily with the serious ones), such mistakes have their consequences in life, a karma which has to be exhausted. The divine Grace, But if you call upon it, has the power to abolish that karma, to cut short Presence of the consequences—but the Grace can only do this when you, within yourself, don't begin all over again, when the mistake committed is not renewed. The past Mother can always be completely purified felt vividly and abolishedcontinuously, on condition that then one does need not keep making it into a perpetual present. <ref>https://incarnateword.be troubled by their endeavours; one can face and repel them in/agenda/02/june-2-1961#p2</ref> ==Withdrawal the full consciousness of Grace== If there is no personal effort, if the sadhak is too indolent Mother's grace and tamasic to try, why should the Grace act? protection.<ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3132/vigilancethe-resolutionmothers-willpresence-and-the-divineadverse-helpforces#p58p2</ref>
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If ...opening yourself at the will of same time to the individual is towards perditionMother in your work, if his ego becomes hostile 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 Divinecontrary you allow your fancies or desires to interfere with your work or are careless and negligent, then you interrupt the Divine flow of her grace and give room for sorrow and uneasiness and other foreign forces to enter into you. Yoga through work is not bound the easiest and most effective way to show him a Grace he does not want at all and kicks atenter into the stream of this sadhana. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2932/opening-to-the-divinemother-grace-andin-guidancework#p26p3</ref>
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As for withdrawal The more complete your faith, sincerity and surrender, the more will grace and protection be with you. And when the grace and protection of Gracethe Divine Mother are with you, it might be said what is there that few are those from can touch you or whom the Grace withdrawsneed 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, but many are those who withdraw 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 Gracegrace 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>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2932/the-divine-grace-andmother-guidanceiii#p25p3</ref>
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Strictly speakingFor 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 Grace does 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 withdraw; people make be sorrowful or discouraged or fear anything, but look steadily at all that comes out and have the will that it impossible should go completely and for themselves to receive itever. But you have only to take With the right attitude Mother's force working and keep itthe psychic being supporting the force, so 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 Grace can once more do its saving workhigher 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>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1731/17dealing-with-depression-julyand-1936despondency#p2p10</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?''
Here, for each work given, the full strength and Grace are always given at the same time to ''A:'' What do the work as it has to be done. If you do not feel mean "by the strength and consent"? The Mother's Grace comes down by the Grace it proves that there is some mistake in your attitudeMother's will. The faith is lacking Purusha can accept or you have fallen back on old tracks and old creeds and thus you lose all receptivityreject the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1732/1the-octobermothers-1952grace#p1p11,p12</ref>
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''Q. 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?
Insincerity seems ''A:'' It is the work of the Cosmic Power to be an incurable defect 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 nullifies the working embodiment of the Grace in a beingMother is there to bring into action. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1732/2the-junemothers-1965universal-action-and-her-embodied-physical-action#p4-p5</ref>
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But for one who has faith in the Divine Grace, In her universal action the return Mother acts according to the Light becomes easy. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/19-august-1953#p31</ref> =Living in Grace= ==Krishna’s Grace== The Grace law of Krishna consists for him in Krishna's very lovableness, in his showing things—in her embodied physical action is the opportunity of himself to the devotee, in his calla constant Grace, the cry of his flute. That —it 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 that the beauty and rapture of this loveembodiment takes place. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2932/bhaktithe-mothers-yogauniversal-action-and-vaishnavismher-embodied-physical-action#p53p2</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.
Krishna's Grace And through her mediation each movement of sincere and confident aspiration towards the Divine calls whom it wills to call without any determining reason for down in response the choice or rejection, his mercy or his withholding or at least delaying intervention 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. <ref>https://incarnatewordGrace.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p54</ref>
==Mother’s “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!
The Mother's grace is there always; open yourself to it in quietude and confidence. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/“Without the-mothers-grace#p3</ref>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.”<centerref>~https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p4,p5,p6,p7,p8</centerref>
In her universal action the Mother acts according to the law of things—in her embodied physical action is the opportunity of a constant =More On 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>=
That was the experience: I saw and felt this Compassion working through the meshes of the net, and how the Grace is all-powerful, meaning that the "Law" isn't an obstacle any longer. I saw this Compassion touching everyone and giving everyone their chance; I understood what he[Sri Aurobindo] really meant when he said that it "gives everyone their chance"—equally, without the slightest distinction of importance or condition or anything, or of state: exactly the same chance to all. So then, the result of this Compassion was to awaken them to the existence of the Grace, to make them feel that there is in the universe something like the Grace. And with those who aspire and have trust, the Grace acts immediately—it always acts, but with those who have trust it becomes fully effective. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/december-7-1966#p4</ref>
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''Is the Mother's Grace always general?''Both general and special. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/The rain is the-mothers-grace#p17-p18</ref> ''Is there any law symbol of the working descent of the Mother's Grace? Why does the Mother in her universal action act according to the law or of things, but in her embodied physical by constant Grace?''It is the work of the Cosmic Power to maintain the cosmos and the law of the cosmos—transforming it by a slow evolution. The greater transformation comes from the Transcendent above the universe, and it higher consciousness which is that transcendent Grace which the embodiment cause of the Mother is there to bring into actionriches—the spiritual plenty. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3230/the-motherssky-universalweather-actionnight-and-her-embodied-physical-actiondawn#p4-p5p7</ref>
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''Do calm This is a very great progress—to be able to receive the higher consciousness while doing external things with the physical mind and equality come down from above by body—it shows that the Mother's Grace? '' When they descend, it physical consciousness is fast opening. What you feel is by indeed the soul's aspiration Grace coming down and bringing the Mother's gracehigher divine or spiritual consciousness with it with all that is there. All that (peace, power, Ananda) will develop afterwards more clearly.<ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3230/descent-and-the-motherslower-gracenature#p1-p2p25</ref>
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''Can it be believed Remember also that although here the Mother's Grace is acting conditions would be more favourable, yet even when at a distance the difficulties do not disappear?''In that case everybody might say that grace and help can be there with you. Only fix yourself on the goal, make the inner choice once for all my difficulties must disappear at oncefirmly and completely; it is there in your soul, fix it in your mind also. Once there, I must attain to perfection immediately fixed and without difficultiesunalterable, otherwise it proves that will prevail over the difficulties of your own vital nature and the Motherphysical world's Grace is not with meopposition, misunderstanding or reluctance. <ref>httpshttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3231/difficultiesthe-andright-theattitude-motherstowards-gracedifficulties#p3-p4p36</ref>
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''Q. By what puṇya of ours has the Grace granted to us, mere humans, this rare privilege of coming here at the Divine's Feet?''
To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril ''A:''It is the call of your soul that brought you here and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always together—the Grace of also some aspiration or connection with the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrendermyself in past lives. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/theconnections-in-motherpast-iiilives#p1,p2</ref>
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''Q.''People make all sorts of effort to have God's darshan; some even weep and weep, yet they fail to obtain it. We in the Asram don't seem to have done very much, and yet we are here with you. What has brought this about?''
''Is there any law of the working of the MotherA:'s Grace?''The more one develops There are many things that have brought it about—a connection in past lives with the psychicMother and myself, the more is development of your nature in former births which made it possible for you to seek the Divine, bhakti in those lives bearing its fruit now—finally, the Divine Grace to act. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/theconnections-in-motherspast-gracelives#p14-p15p7,p8</ref>
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''Q. What are the signs of the coming of the Divine Grace? Does the Divine Grace take full charge of the sadhana as soon as the sadhak gives the charge? If not, when will it take full charge?''
The great work of the Avatar is to manifest the Divine Grace upon earth. To be a disciple of the Avatar is to become ''A:''If he gives full charge truly and really, with 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 sincerity of Universal Justice.And through her mediation each movement of sincere total surrender and confident aspiration towards the Divine calls down does not come in response the intervention way of the divine Grace. <ref>https://incarnatewordHow many can do that? It cannot be done by a word or by taking up a mental posture.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p4,p5</ref>
==Guru’s Grace== If it is the general compassion Calling on God to do everything and grace of the Guru, that, save one would think, is always there on all the disciple; his acceptance itself is an act of grace trouble and the help is there for the disciple to receive. But the touch of grace, divine grace coming directly or through the Guru struggle is a special phenomenon having two sides to it,—the grace of the Guru or the Divine, in fact both together, on one side self-deception 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 does not lead to happen, only touches or glimpses or passing experiences at the most, freedom 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 matchperfection."] 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>
All the materialism and positivism in the world have been constructed just because people do not want the divine Grace to come in at all. If they are cured they want to say, “It is I who cured myself”; if they make a progress, they want to think, “It is I who have progressed”; if they organise something, they want to proclaim, “It is I who am organising.” And many, many of those who try to do otherwise, if they look within themselves, would see how seldom spontaneously, sincerely (not as when one says something because one knows it should be said, or as one thinks something because it is the fashion to think like that but spontaneously, sincerely, with all their heart) they ''know''that it is not they who have done the thing, but the divine force. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/5-april-1951#p14</ref>
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Because if you are sincere,once you have seen—as long as you have not seen, nothing can be said—but the moment you see is the moment when you receive the Grace, and once you have received the Grace, you no longer have the right to forget it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-12#p13</ref>
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The Guru's touch or grace may open somethingSri Aurobindo is always with us, enlightening, guiding, but the difficulties have always protecting. We must answer 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 his grace by a burden or obstacle but only as superficial imperfections which the working of the grace will removeperfect faithfulness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2913/theeternal-gurupresence#p28p30</ref>
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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 Blessings are a manifestation of the Divine, according to the measure of his personality or his attainment; but whatever he isdivine grace, it is to the Divine that one opens in opening to him, and if something is determined by the power favour 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 individual 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 ita collectivity. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2913/the-gurublessings#p45p8</ref> =More on Grace=
==Sanskrit words for "Grace"==
God laughed and after some silence whispered, “My precious child, I love you and never left you. When you were fine & healthy, I used to walk besides you. So the extra pair of footprints was visible. When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you during your tough times. Whenever you were in difficulties and problems, I was still protecting you.” <ref>https://tinyurl.com/jsnd6vbz</ref>
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