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<p class="paracenter">THE DIVINE GRACE (I)
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<p class="para"> When you are in a certain set of 
circumstances and when certain things happen, these things often go against your 
desire or against what appears to you best. And you regret and say: &quot;Oh! How 
much better it would have been had it been otherwise !&quot; It does not matter 
whether the thing concerned is small or big.
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<p class="para"> The years pass, events roll on. 
You progress, become more conscious, understand better. And when you look back, 
you discover, at first with surprise, later on with a smile, that the famous 
circumstances which once appeared to you disastrous or unfavourable were just 
the very best thing that could have happened for your needed progress. And if 
you were a little wise you would say, &quot;truly, the Divine Grace is infinite !&quot;
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<p class="para"> And when this happens to you a 
good number of times, you begin to understand that in spite of man's blindness 
and wrong appearances, the Grace is at work everywhere and because of the Grace 
it is the best possible that happens in the state where the world is at a given 
moment.
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<p class="para"> It is because our vision is 
limited or because we are blinded by our preferences that we are unable to 
discover why things are as they are. But when one begins to see one enters into 
that state of wonder which nothing can describe. Behind the appearances one 
finds this infinite, wonderful, all-powerful Grace that knows everything, 
organises everything, arranges everything, and leads us, whether we want it or 
not, whether we know it or not, towards the supreme goal, the union with the 
Divine, the awareness of the Divine Consciousness and becoming one with it.
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<p class="para"> Thus living in the action and the 
presence of the Grace one lives a life full of delight and wonder, the sense of 
a marvellous power and at the same time, full of a quiet and complete trust 
which nothing can shake.
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<p class="para"> Whatever may be the faith and the 
trust you have in the Divine Grace, whatever your capacity of seeing it at work 
in all circumstances, at every moment and at all points of life, you can never 
fully understand the marvellous immensity of its action and the precision and 
the exactitude with which it works. Never shall one grasp in
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<p class="para">what degree the Grace does everything, is behind everything, 
organises everything in order that the advance towards the divine realisation 
may be as swift, as complete, as total as it can be under the given 
circumstances of the world.
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<p class="para"> As soon as you come in contact 
with it, you find that there is not a second in time, not a point in space which 
does not show in a signal manner this ceaseless work of the Grace, its constant 
intervention. And once you have seen that, you feel you are never up to the 
mark. For you must never forget that you must not have fear or anguish or regret 
or recoil or even suffering. If you were in union with this Grace, if you saw it 
everywhere, you would begin to live a life of exultation, all power and infinite 
happiness. And that would be the best possible collaboration in the Divine Work.
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