The Power of God's Grace: Beyond Methods and Entitlement

You are empty of your mind, okay. Suppose you're a Maha Yogi, Maha Jnani, you're empty of your mind, okay. Now in spite of that, if God's grace is not there, what will you get? Nothing. His presence, His Atma has to reveal itself to you. You cannot force it. We are not entitled to it. We spoke about entitlement, you see. So focus on His grace more than the methods or the tactics that you're using. Okay, so suppose that, let's say that the famous example: the lane is narrow, huh? The lane is narrow, the lane is narrow. Now suppose that you're somebody full of yourself, full of yourself, but God's grace is upon you. And suppose that you are a great yogi, you're a great practitioner of the art of keeping your mind empty, all of that, but grace is not upon you. Who has a better chance of being with God? And history is full of these examples.

So rely on His grace, on His guidance, more than trying to do this project yourself. That is the being of spirituality in today's world, because it is mostly become Godless. Godless spirit is what? Spirituality—spirit is what? Spirit is a worldly thing? Spirit is not a worldly thing. So what is it? It is the presence of God Himself. It is the Atma. So just to rely on that and say, 'I bow down to you, holy presence of God.' That's why in the prayer I said, 'Bless my heart with the light of spirit.' Knowing fully well that if that blessing is upon us, then everything is fine. It's not operating under the presumption that we've already found it. So the prayer is not reliant on that.

But you must inculcate these things on Diwali. Don't get into any notion that your spirituality is in your hands. You must put everything that we feel we have into it, but know that the outcomes are only with God. Otherwise, in the textbook it would be written: you chant Ram ten million times, you have to find God. Can anyone give you that guarantee? Nobody can give you. You do the inquiry ten million times and you will come to self-realization. Can anyone give you the guarantee? Nobody. Because the big variable is God's grace. And in recognizing that, you will see that actually what we take ourselves to be is powerless, is nobody, and that takes away our pride.