surrender and grace

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Surrender is Essential for Divine Grace

 

An article in the Hindustan Times

 

“Refuge in the divine power alone can rid you of all your sufferings. To attain

this one has to

learn to be calm despite the hustle-bustle around us. It is a supreme secret

which one learns on

receiving Jnana . All religious scriptures mention this secret and eulogise its

glory and

splendour.

 

The secret is not written on paper; instead it is to be found within you. It

needs to be taught

and revealed to you, preferably by a Jivan Mukta. It is manifested in the human

body. It is

taught by God himself . And it is through this supramental divine experience,

that one learns the

eternal technique of worship. The scriptures say it is the only way to

consecrate actions to God.

It is through this eternal path that the seeds of shraddha and samarpan sprout.

 

Faith and surrender provide the required lubrication for self-transcendence.

Once in the presence

of God, unrest in all forms disappear: Just as the blazing fire turns fuel into

ashes, similarly

the fire of brahm jnana turns all actions to ashes. In the knowledge of brahman

lies the solution

to all human maladies. This jnana is incomplete without the cosmic vision of God

at the time of

following the teachings of a true sage. Ruysbroeck, a realized soul from the

West once said: " He

only is fit to contemplate the divine light who is slave to nothing, not even to

his virtues."

Such is the intensity of faith and surrender that is needed for receiving divine

grace.The two

will come up on getting initiated into the trans-sensuous knowledge of the

Supreme.

 

Nobody on this earth can lessen the karmic bondage except omnipotent God whose

infinite power is

always ready to provide one with the eternal techniques of calling, remembering

and worshipping

him. I am talking of the eternal knowledge which Draupadi had. It was her jnana

which saved her

from the humiliation wreaked on her by the Kauravas and brought God to her

rescue. It was a

complete reliance on her spiritual master that saved her. Such faith flows out

naturally on

initiation into brahm jnana by a genuine preceptor.”

 

SURRENDER IS ESSENTIAL FOR DIVINE GRACE

Hindustan Times

 

 

 

 

 

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Life is a pure flame,and we live

by an invisible Sun within us.

 

 

 

 

 

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