The Action of the Higher Grace

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We normally judge things based
on our own individual egoistic

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standpoint, basically how a
particular event or circumstance

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affects us in the moment.
We build up expectations and

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plans, and suddenly something
gets in the way and destroys or

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diverts those plans.
We naturally become

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disappointed, potentially even
angry, about what happened.

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With the benefit of hindsight,
however, we may frequently find

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that what took place at that
time actually was an enormous

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act of grace that helped us move
into a direction that we

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otherwise would not have seen or
would have actively avoided.

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There is the case of an
individual who was poisoned and

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upon recovery he recognized that
there was a divine existence in

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the world and he had been given
back his life to serve that.

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He promptly gave up his career
plans and set off to learn about

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and practice a spiritual
discipline.

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There's the case of a man struck
by lightning and pronounced

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clinically dead, who returned to
life with a new focus and

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mission and switched from being
a hired mercenary to someone who

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founded a Hospice care
organization.

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Many such anecdotes can be
reported to show that what

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appeared to be a tragedy was
actually a positive turning

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point in someone's life.
This is particularly true for

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those who take up and follow a
spiritual path after some

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traumatic event that they had at
the time considered to be a very

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unfortunate circumstance, the
mother writes.

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Quote If you are in a state of
conscious aspiration and very

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sincere, well, everything around
you will be arranged in order to

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help in your aspiration, whether
directly or indirectly.

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That is either to make you
progress, put you in touch with

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something new, or to eliminate
from your nature something that

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has to disappear.
This is something quite

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remarkable.
If you are truly in a state of

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intensity of aspiration, there
is not a circumstance which does

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not come to help you to realize
this aspiration.

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Everything comes, everything, as
though there were a perfect and

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absolute consciousness
organizing around you all

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things.
And you yourself, in your outer

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ignorance, may not recognize it,
and may protest at first against

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the circumstances as they show
themselves, may complain, may

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try to change them.
But after a while, when you have

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become wiser and there is a
certain distance between you and

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the event, well, you will
realize that it was just what

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you needed to do to make the
necessary progress.

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And you know it is a will, a
supreme goodwill which arranges

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all things around you.
And even when you complain in

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protest instead of accepting, it
is exactly at such moments that

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it acts most effectively.
If you say to the divine with

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conviction, I want only you, the
divine will arrange all the

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circumstances in such a way as
to compel you to be sincere.

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Something in the being.
I want only you, the aspiration.

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And then one wants 100 odd
things all the time, isn't that

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so?
At times something comes, just

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usually to disturb everything.
It stands in the way and

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prevents you from realizing your
aspiration.

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Well, the Divine will come
without showing himself, without

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your seeing him, without your
having any inkling of it, and He

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will arrange all the
circumstances in such a way that

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everything that prevents you
from belonging solely to the

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Divine will be removed from your
path.

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Inevitably then, when all is
removed, you begin to howl and

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complain.
But later, if you are sincere

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and look at yourself straight in
the eye, you have said to the

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Lord, you have said, I want only
you.

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He will remain close to you, All
the rest will go away.

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This is indeed a higher grace.
Only you must say this with

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conviction.
I don't even mean that you must

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say it integrally, because if
one says it integrally, the work

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is done.
What is necessary is that one

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part of the being.
Indeed, the central will says it

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with conviction.
I want only you even once, and

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it suffices.
All that takes more or less

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long.
Sometimes it stretches over

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years, but one reaches the goal.
But one has all kinds of

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imperfections, eh?
The more the imperfections, the

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longer it takes.
The more the attachments one

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has, the longer it takes, but
the goal is sure.

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End Quote reference.
Srioro Bindu and the Mother,

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Looking from Within, Chapter 1,
Looking at Life and

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Circumstances, pages 21 to 23.