A mind absolved from life, made calm to know,
A heart divorced from the blindness and the pang,
The seal of tears, the bond of ignorance,
He turned to find that wide world-failure’s cause.
Away he looked from Nature’s visible face
And sent his gaze into the viewless Vast,
The formidable unknown Infinity,
Asleep behind the endless coil of things,
That carries the universe in its timeless breadths
And the ripples of its being are our lives.
Sri Aurobindo
Savitri, Book II, Canto VII, page 202.
The Grace is something that pushes you towards the goal to be attained. Do not try to judge it by your mind, you will not get anywhere, because it is something formidable which is not explained through human words or feelings. When the Grace acts, the result may or may not be pleasant — it takes no account of any human value, it may even be a catastrophe from the ordinary and superficial point of view. But it is always the best for the individual. It is a blow that the Divine sends so that progress may be made by leaps and bounds. The Grace is that which makes you march swiftly towards the realisation.
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Of one thing we must be convinced — all that happens is exactly what must happen in order to lead us and the world as quickly as possible to the goal — the union with the Divine and ultimately the manifestation of the Divine.
And this faith — sincere and constant — is at once our help and protection.
The Mother,
Words of the Mother II, CWM volume 14, page 97.