Grace

CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY

Grace is within you; if it were external it would be useless.Grace is the Self; you are never out of its reach. If you remember the guru, it is because you have been prompted by the Self.
Isn't grace already there? Is there a moment when grace is not operating in you?

Your remembrance of the guru is the fore­
runner of grace, Grace is both the response and the stimulus. That is the Self and that is grace. There is no cause for anxiety.

Q: But isn't a guru's grace or God's grace necessary for one' s progress with vichara?

M: Yes, but the enquiry that you are making is itself guru's grace or God's grace.

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