God's Grace

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Hare Krishna, Namaskarams

 

After downloading couple of books from the site Sri Ramanashramam I

was reading one of them called " Gems From Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi " .

Under the topic " Surrender " the following passage impressed me so much

I wanted to share with the group.

 

" From the book, Divine Grace Through Total Self-Surrender by D.C.

Desai, Bhagavan read out the following quotations by Paul Brunton for

our benefit:

Divine Grace is a manifestation of the cosmic free will in operation.

It can alter the course of events in a mysterious manner through its

own unknown laws, which are superior to all natural laws, and can

modify the latter by interaction. It is the most powerful force in the

universe. It descends and acts only when it is invoked by total

selfsurrender. It acts from within, because God resides in the Heart

of all beings. Its whisper can be heard only in a mind purified by

self-surrender and prayer.

 

Rationalists laugh at it, and atheists scorn it, but it exists. It is

a descent of God into the soul's zone of awareness. It is a visitation

of force unexpected and unpredictable. It is a voice spoken out of

cosmic silence - It is `Cosmic Will which can perform authentic

miracles under its own laws'. In truth, God and the Guru are not

different. Those who have come within the ambit of the Guru's gracious

look will be saved by the Guru and will not get lost; yet, each one

should by his own effort pursue the path shown by God or Guru and gain

release.Each seeker after God should be allowed to go his own way, the

way for which he alone may be built (meant). It will not do to convert

him to another path by violence. The Guru will go with the disciple in

his own path and then gradually turn him onto the Supreme path at the

ripe moment. "

 

With out god's grace nothing is possible. The very desire to know the

self itself is a blessing of the lord. May lord Krishna bless us all.

 

Baskaran