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The effort demanded of the sadhak is that of aspiration, rejection and surrender. If these three are done, the rest is to come of itself by the grace of the Mother and the working of her force in you. But of the three the most important is surrender of which the first necessary form is trust and confidence and patience in difficulty.
''Q. Is there any law of the working of the Mother's Grace?'' ''A:''The more one develops the psychic, the more is it possible for the Grace to act. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p14-p15</ref>
On the whole aspire for the growth of the psychic and its control of the rest of the nature and for the opening, not to a larger vital consciousness, but to the higher consciousness above. And at all stages open yourself to the protection of the Mother and her grace and call on that for your safeguard and your guidance.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-intermediate-zone#p17</ref>
To walk through life armoured against all fear, peril and disaster, only two things are needed, two that go always together—the Grace of the Divine Mother and on your side an inner state made up of faith, sincerity and surrender. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mother-iii#p1</ref>
The forces [adverse forces] can always be there so long as there is not the transformation of the whole nature. They manifest themselves whenever they can. But if the Presence of the Mother can always be felt vividly and continuously, then one need not be troubled by their endeavours; one can face and repel them in the full consciousness of the Mother's grace and protection.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-presence-and-the-adverse-forces#p2</ref>
...opening yourself at the same time to the Mother in your work, you would receive more constantly the grace and would come to feel her power doing the work through you; you would thus be able to live constantly with the sense of her presence. If on the contrary you allow your fancies or desires to interfere with your work or are careless and negligent, you interrupt the flow of her grace and give room for sorrow and uneasiness and other foreign forces to enter into you. Yoga through work is the easiest and most effective way to enter into the stream of this sadhana. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/opening-to-the-mother-in-work#p3</ref>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/dealing-with-depression-and-despondency#p10</ref>
''Q. When a sadhak feels the Mother's Grace coming down in him, is it by the consent of the Purusha in him?'' ''A:'' What do you mean "by the consent"? The Mother's Grace comes down by the Mother's will. The Purusha can accept or reject the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p11,p12</ref>
It is the work of the Cosmic Power to maintain the cosmos and the law of Is there any law of the working of the Mother's Grace? Why does the Mother in her universal action act according to the law of things, but in her embodied physical by constant Grace?