God's Amazing Grace
Grace of God is showering uninterruptedly on us, but we simply do not look towards that! We disregard this grace, we disrespect it, we dishonor it, then too God does not leave His compassionate and merciful nature. He continues to shower His grace. A child does not disrespect the mother any less, for he urinates and excretes somewhere, he spits other times, but mother constantly protects him. Similarly, we too are clever like the child in following the wrong path. But God is not any less sharp than the mother in showering His grace, rather he is very quick. Therefore we must have faith in His grace.
Even if the worst of all situations befalls, in that too His grace is ever the same. If illness overcomes us, if we suffer financial losses, if someone dies, if sickness takes hold, if we are dishonored or disgraced, in all of these situations, there is God's grace. We must have faith in His grace.
Laalane taadane maaturnaakaarunyam yathaarbhake |
Tadvadeva maheshasya niyanturgunadoshayoh ||
Just as while caring for the child and also while reprimanding the child, in both these incidents, there is never a time that mother's is never not gracing the child, similarly God who is governing our good and bad qualities, can never not be gracing us.
In this way, sometimes without any cause God showers His grace on us and gives us this human body -
Kabahunak kari karunaa nar dehi
Det is binu hetu sanehi || (Manas, Uttar. 44/3)
Sins amassed in the past (sanchit) never come to an end; because every being has been committing these sins from time immemorial. However, in between, inspite of being sinful, God blesses us with a human body, and in the midst He gives us an opportunity for our salvation. This is God's extra-ordinary grace. God's nature is such that he continues to shower His grace without any cause, then this is His two-fold grace! On having faith in His infinite grace, if one engages in spiritual disciplines, then there will be much blessedness, unique and natural, self-evident divinity and progress. We do not take shelter of that grace, therefore that grace is less fruitful. If we yield to that grace, then the grace will bare abundant fruits. Therefore while offering praises to the Lord, Brahmaji says -
Tatte-nukampaam susameekshamaano bhunjaan evaatmakrutam vipaakam |
Hrdvagvapurbhirvirddhannmaste jeevet yo muktipade sa daayabhaak || (Srimad Bhagwat 10/14/8)
He who while enjoying the fruits of his actions, at every moment continues to look only towards Your grace, and with his heart, speech and body, time and again prostrates to You, he becomes the one eligible to Your Eternal Abode, just like a child becomes the rightful heir to the father's wealth!
From "Bhagwaan aur Unki Bhakti" by Swami Ramsukhdasji
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