The
Divine Grace and Love
THE MOTHER says that there can be Love without Grace as there can also be Grace without Love, although the two are essentially one and the same. Grace means gift, it is a gesture of the giving of boon from the Divine. The Divine gives out of His Plenitude what we want, what we need, what we should have, naturally as per His choice. The most obvious, the most external, superficial and concrete form of gift is what meets our physical material need. And protection is the most appreciated and the most readily available treasure. Protection in its larger sense, includes all kinds and modes of welfare from the most physical to the utmost spiritual. When the aspirant prays: 'Lead us not to temptations, give us purity and peace and truth,' God's answer is His Grace. But
instead of giving any boon, any treasure physical or material or even
spiritual, however precious, instead of giving anything the Divine may give
Himself to one who approaches Him; then it becomes something more than the
Grace, it is Love, the Divine's Love –
His own Self. It is His own
substance, His own delight of being that He gives, not anything external or
extraneous. One remembers the story of Arjuna and Duryodhana. Duryodhana
approached Grace is of Maheshwari, that is to say, it is the special attribute, a particular emanation of her own self, it is a form of herself in an attitude that belongs particularly to her. Love is of Mahalaxmi it is her own special form and gesture. Or,
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image we may say Grace is Shiva, the benign white radiance on the supreme
heights enveloping the creation in its calm immutable compassion; while Page – 207
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