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<font size="4">The
Divine Grace and Love</font><o:p></o:p></b></h2>
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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>THE MOTHER says that there
can be Love without Grace as there can also be Grace without Love, although the
two are essentially one and the same.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Grace
means gift, it is a gesture of the giving of boon from the Divine. The Divine
gives out of His Plenitude what we want, what we need, what we should have,
naturally as per His choice. The most obvious, the most external, superficial
and concrete form of gift is what meets our physical material need. And
protection is the most appreciated and the most readily available treasure.
Protection in its larger sense, includes all kinds and modes of welfare from
the most physical to the utmost spiritual. When the aspirant prays: 'Lead us
not to temptations, give us purity and peace and truth,' God's answer is His
Grace.</p>

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instead of giving any boon, any treasure physical or material or even
spiritual, however precious, instead of giving anything the Divine may give
Himself to one who approaches Him; then it becomes something more than the
Grace, it is Love, the Divine's Love –<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;
</span>His<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>own Self. It is His own
substance, His own delight of being that He gives, not anything external or
extraneous. One remembers the story of Arjuna and Duryodhana. Duryodhana
approached <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place> and thought the utmost, the best that
he could secure from <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place> was <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>'s
battalions, for that seemed to him the most precious gift of all, for that is
the thing he would need most in the coming battle. Arjuna asked for nothing
else but Krishna Himself.</p>

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150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Grace
is of Maheshwari, that is to say, it is the special attribute, a particular
emanation of her own<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>

<p class=MsoBodyText style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">self, it is a form of herself in an attitude that belongs
particularly to her. Love is of Mahalaxmi it is her own<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>special form and gesture. Or, </p>

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mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0'>varying the
image we may say Grace is Shiva, the benign white radiance on the supreme
heights enveloping the creation in its calm immutable compassion; while <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>
is Love, the immortal delight dwelling in the heart of mortality.</p>

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