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Read more about Grace from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

What is Divine Grace?

Grace is not an invention, it is a fact of spiritual experience. ^[1] 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. ^[2] There are no words that can express the magnificence of the Grace: how everything is arranged for things to move as fast as possible. ^[3] The Divine Grace cannot be explained through words and mental formulas. ^[4]

Experience of the Divine Grace

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. ^[5]

Why Divine Grace Matters

Strength, if it is spiritual, is a power for spiritual realisation; a greater power is sincerity; the greatest power of all is Grace.^[6]

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. ^[7]

The Divine Will works in all things—it may work out anything whatever. The Divine Grace comes in to help and save. ^[8]

Our faith in the omnipotence of the Grace is never equal to what the Grace itself is. ^[9]

Completely, the Divine Grace completely contradicts Karma; you know, It makes it melt away like butter that's put in the sun. ^[10]

Our faith in the omnipotence of the Grace is never equal to what the Grace itself is. ^[11]

How to Receive Divine Grace

Be Worthy of the Divine Grace

Who is worthy or unworthy in front of the Divine Grace? All are children of the one and the same Mother. Her love is equally spread over all of them. But to each one She gives according to his nature and receptivity. ^[12]

Open to the Divine Grace

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. ^[13]

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 action. The one condition required is faith. ^[14]

Invoke the Divine Grace

Does the intervention of the Grace come through a call?

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. ^[15]

Be Aware of the Works of Grace

People are not aware of the workings of Grace except when there has been some danger, that is, when 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 nothing can happen. But that seems to them quite natural. When people are ill and get well quickly, 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! ^[16]

Be 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. ^[17]

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. ^[18]

Help from the Divine Grace

The only help one can and should receive is that of the Grace which formulates itself in everyone according to his own need. ^[19]

Path of Progress

Leave all care to the Divine's Grace, including your progress, and you will be in peace. ^[20]

Divine Grace Never Fails

The Divine Grace is with us and never leaves us even when the appearances are dark. ^[21]

Read more about Grace from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.

[1] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p14

[2] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/29-october-1958#p11

[3] ttps://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/november-19-1969#p73

[4] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p19

[5] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/26-september-1956#p14

[6] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p14

[7] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p2

[8] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p1

[9] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p29

[10] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/3-june-1953#p24

[11] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p29

[12] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p23-p26

[13] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954#p32

[14] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p8

[15] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/18-november-1953#p38-p39

[16] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/23-december-1953#p52

[17] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p24

[18] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p11

[19] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/24-september-1958#p19

[20] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p23

[21] ttps://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p19

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-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>
 =What is Divine Grace?=
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 =Experience of the Divine Grace=
 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>
 =Why Divine Grace Matters=
-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>
+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>
 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>

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