Grace -- Sri Ramana

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Grace always "IS."

 

Grace is ever-existing, ever-flowing.

 

Sri Ramana Maharshi says:

 

Ocean of nectar, full of grace.

 

Grace is the Self. You are never out of its operation. Grace is

always there. You are neck-deep in it and yet you cry for grace. It

is as if one neck-deep in water should feel thirsty.

 

That which exists is grace, it is always there, it is available to all

and it fills the entire universe since it is existence itself.

 

That which eternally "IS", is "I am" and it is the inmost nature

of all and so is available to all, at all times. This pure "I am" in

everyone of us is grace.

 

Grace is the beginning, middle and end. Grace is the Self.

 

Grace always "is" and is not given.

 

God, grace and guru are the one innermost essence of

awareness, which is revealed or experienced when attachment

to all forms is broken.

 

God, grace and guru are all synonymous and also eternal and

immanent.

 

Grace is within you. If it is external it is useless.

 

Grace is constant. Grace is always there. You are never out

of its operation.

 

Is there a moment when grace is not operating in you? Your

remembrance is the forerunner of grace. That is the response,

that is the stimulus, that is the Self and that is grace.

 

Grace and God are not different.

 

People come and tell me that I must grant them grace. They seem to

think that grace is something which I keep under lock and key.

 

Grace is another name for God. All that we need do is to keep our

heart open so that guru's grace may flow in as sunshine through

an open window.

 

Grace is the Self. That also is not to be acquired, you only need

to know that it exists. Grace is already within, it is that which

always exists.

 

Grace is within every human being. It is the state of true being,

true awareness devoid of otherness. It is the Self.

 

Just like a mother who feeds her sleeping child even without the

child knowing that it is being fed, the grace of pure divine

Self enters our hearts in a manner which cannot be known by us

even if we have the most subtle and powerful of intellects, and

thereby, His grace informs us and brings about the destruction

of our mind. Ah! His grace is beyond all limits and cannot be

gauged by anyone.

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie