Guest guest Posted April 1, 2002 Report Share Posted April 1, 2002 The following is a continuance on my sharing from the book "Ammaness" by M. Dinakar, whose writings on Grace as perAmma Ansuya Devi, as he writes, "are culled from various sources and presented in conceptual form." The following is from the section/chapter, entitled, GRACE: Grace is incomprehensible. Its mechanism is not intelligible to the common place. Its ways are inscrutable. Nevertheless grace works. It exists and dictates. Causes an order. Subdues the egoistic will. Primarily grace is understood in terms of necessity, the needs of existence. Necessity is invaluable and when needs are fulfilled, grace is felt to be at work. Yet, grace is not such a simple truth. It is something more and farther beyond human conjecture. Success in one's attempt is generally attributed to grace. Fruition of personal effort is believed a function of grace. Grace is at once the cause and consequence. The effort and the result—both are a function of grace. Attempts do fail too. Success is not always experienced. Obviously in such a situation grace is misconceived to be lacking, but in essence, success and failure are results of grace alike. Grace subsists in providence and providence rarely conforms to individual expectations. The processs has its own methods. Its working is always concealed. The present failure could be a prelude to the future success. In a series of cosmic commitments, success and failures are hardly significant. The order moves on relentlessly with scant regard for individual successes. They cease to be meaningful except when focused in particular by the individual. Grace continues irrespective of individual ends. Nevertheless it fits into the cosmic process in which all personal wills end. The consolation for all is that the end is positive but for a varying time lag. Thus grace is identically benevolent. The requirements of grace are stringent and unyielding. They uplift the base instincts. Gradually the instincts are reduced to spent forces and grace finds a way within. It uplifts and elevates. During the process the person is subject to severe strains and stresses completely unmindful of the working of grace. Strangely even the recipient of grace is generally totally unaware of it, save for a few glimmers of grace caused by its revelations. Even these revelations are only in understanding this divine force. It would be an exaggeration to say that even in extreme cases of adversity, grace is working underneath. It is not an exaggeration but a positive truth to affirm that grace works always both in adversity and good fortune alike. Its working is appropriate to the times although unobtrusive. To be more illustrative, a person may escape a mortal injury, but suffer a surface wound due to grace which compensates the laws of cosmic process by simulating a similar suffering in the individual. But the human being undergoing this process resents and tends to alienate himself from this divine force. For basically, affliction and affluence exist only in human perception and in terms of grace they are scarcely farther from identical. Affliction and good fortune compensate each other in different directions. One is not without the other in the complete sense, and both are manifestations of grace. Even in the cosmic order a perennial function of grace, destruction and construction are co- existent and continually make room for each other. In life process also `working of grace displays these dualities causing happiness and grief alternately but perception of this grace is highly elusive. It is always highly concealed. Irerespective of our comprehension grace gravitates to all beings with a singular certainty. This realization consoles the bruised soul in the mundane struggle." (p. 22-25) Excerpted from: "AMMANESS", By M. Dinakar (Matrusri Publications Trust, S. India) Kathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2002 Report Share Posted April 1, 2002 Dear Kathy Thank you for this beautiful article. And just to let you know, ive send prayers to your friends. Take care, and may Mother bless you always. Om Parashaktiye Namaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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