"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Friday, August 22, 2014

Total Surrender Invokes Divine Grace

Sri Ramana Maharshi
4-1-1946 Morning

Among the letters etc., received was a small pamphlet called Divine Grace Through Total Surrender by Mr. Desai. B read out to us a few extracts from it, viz., the following quotation from Paul Brunton: "I remain perfectly calm and fully aware of who I am and what is occurring. Self still exists, but it is a changed, radiant Self. Something that is far superior to my unimportant personality rises into consciousness and becomes me. I am in the midst of an ocean of blazing light. I sit in the lap of holy bliss." 

"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 self-surrender. 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."

Paul Brunton describes its nature as follows: "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."

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