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>
==Withdrawal of Grace==
If there is no personal effort, if the sadhak is too indolent and tamasic to try, why should the Grace act? <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/vigilance-resolution-will-and-the-divine-help#p58</ref>
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If the will of the individual is towards perdition, if his ego becomes hostile to the Divine, then the Divine is not bound to show him a Grace he does not want at all and kicks at. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p26</ref>
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As for withdrawal of Grace, it might be said that few are those from whom the Grace withdraws, but many are those who withdraw from the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p25</ref>
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Strictly speaking, the Grace does not withdraw; people make it impossible for themselves to receive it. But you have only to take the right attitude and keep it, so that the Grace can once more do its saving work. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/17-july-1936#p2</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>
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Insincerity seems to be an incurable defect which nullifies the working of the Grace in a being. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/2-june-1965#p4</ref>
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But for one who has faith in the Divine Grace, the return to the Light becomes easy. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/19-august-1953#p31</ref>
==Sanskrit words for "Grace"==