The Grace of God
In His limitless love and compassion, Bhagavan Baba keeps on teaching us, guiding us and encouraging us all. Most of us understand His divine teachings in a correct way, because His language is a true and clear one. Most of us can take all advice equally earnestly, whether the advice highlights our personal failings or merits. However, quite a lot of courage and humility is needed for clearly seeing ourselves in the mirror of truth. Here we indeed need to put all the intensity we are capable of into our prayers to God, to cleanse our eyes, to calm our mind, and to purify our intellect, in order to gracefully bless our efforts.
‘See only good; God is in every man; Love your enemies;’ and many other divine signposts He gives us, so lovingly and mercifully pushing us to overcome our ego, prompting us forward along the divine path of righteousness toward His peace, toward fulfillment in His divinity, within ourselves.
Whenever, wherever we are thinking of our beloved Lord, we can hear His voice, full of love and compassion. Our intellect understands that this is the one and only way for us to reach a peaceful coexistence on our earth, to enable us to take that immensely important and definitely necessary step out of our ego into oneness and unity with all His creation. We know that only this way leads to entire surrender to God, to finally merge into the ocean of eternal bliss, God Himself—the child having at last found its way back home.
Our intellect understands, oh yes, it does. However, to understand is one thing, to practice it is another. We can do nothing at all without being blessed with God’s grace. Bhagavan Baba has confirmed: ‘I can give God’s grace. But you will have to supply human effort. Unless God’s grace and human effort come together, the result cannot be achieved.”
Our ego is not easy to conquer, and unless we do this with His graceful help, our efforts, however wholehearted, will show up a petty meager result. May we always remember in all turns of events that divine life is the core and motivation of all and every thing. This is the real oneness of divinity this is the guarantee that we all one day shall reach the goal, fulfillment in eternal bliss and peace.
~Sisko Orefjaerd, Sweden
Source: Sanathana Sarathi, June 1983
