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Or praise with thankful tears his saviour Grace.
(Savitri)
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/34/the-triple-soul-forces#p233</ref> </centre>
=What Is Gratitude?=
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'''Gratitude Is One of the Five Psychological Perfections'''
...that to do the integral yoga one must first resolve to surrender entirely to the Divine, there is no other way, this is the way.But after that one must have the five psychological virtues, five psychological perfections, and we say that these perfections are:
Sincerity or Transparency
Faith or Trust (Trust in the Divine, naturally)
Devotion or Gratitude
Courage or Aspiration
Endurance or Perseverance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/25-january-1956#p70</ref>
...four virtues are indispensable, without which progress is uncertain and subject to interruptions and troublesome falls at the first opportunity:
Sincerity, faithfulness, modesty and gratitude. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/conditions-for-admission#p22</ref>
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To be grateful, never to forget this wonderful grace of the supreme who leads each one to his divine goal by the shortest ways, in spite of himself, his ignorance and misunderstandings, in spite of the ego, its protests and its revolts.
<ref>The Mother, White Roses (Mother’s answers to Huta), p.35</ref>
As soon as we think of the result we begin to bargain and that takes away all sincerity from the effort. You make an effort to progress because you feel within you the need, the imperative need to make an effort and progress; and this effort is the gift you offer to the Divine Consciousness in you, the Divine Consciousness in the Universe, it is your way of expressing your gratitude, offering your self; and whether this results in progress or not is of no importance. You will progress when it is decided that the time has come to progress and not because you desire it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/23-april-1958#p5</ref>
==Absolute Trust in the Divine Grace==
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''Q. What is the way to accept the Grace with gratitude?''
''A.'' 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. This, to begin with, is the first thing.
==By Meditating on His Remembrance ==
==The Mother's Prayer of Gratitude to Sri Aurobindo==
It is very difficult to keep up your gratitude; for a time it comes very strongly and again it goes back. The Divine can go on tolerating everything in spite of your ingratitude because He knows fully the how and why and wherefore of everything. He knows why you are doing a certain thing. He knows the full working and that is why He can tolerate it. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/gratitude#p1</ref>
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