Grace: Amma Anasuya Devi, Pt. II

[Guest guest]

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

[Guest guest]

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