<center>There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and difficult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.
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=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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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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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 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>
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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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''Sri Aurobindo speaks of the influence of the Divine Compassion and the Divine Grace. But what is the difference between the two?''
The compassion seeks to relieve the suffering of all, whether they deserve it or not.
The Grace does not recognise the right of suffering to exist and abolishes it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/21-december-1966#p2-p5</ref>
=Experience of the Divine Grace=