圣恩会纠正一切。其主要结果是“自我证悟”，但也有其他附带的利益，如一个快乐而满足的生命于世间及一个冷静而无畏的气质，建立于不受到干扰的平静之中。。。此乃圣恩的本质。它满足各种需求。

神恩有如甘霖，有如阳光。你必须致力于灵性修习，始能得之：把水壶放正以便收集雨水，把心扉打开以便阳光照耀。

在湖中，坑中，井中及河中的水都是雨水，虽然其味，色，名和形式各有不同，胥视雨水下降在那儿及盛水容器而定。圣恩即如雨水，纯净，清澈，洒向每一个人。它如何被接收和利用则看人的心来决定了。

如果一个人持有一颗纯净的心，并依据斯瓦米的教导去生活，斯瓦米的恩宠自然降临于他。没有羯摩（Karma，业）能阻止。

只有在你把钱存入银行，或抵押你的资产和取得贷款，或银行给予你透支，你才能兑现你所开的支票。你可以抵押的资产是“你前世善行所得的功德。”在紧急时的透支是神恩，是在你够虔诚与稳定的情况下，神才洒向你的。至于贷款，你必须有担保物或保证人：担保物是神恩；保证人是你稳定的信心，是你万变不渝的诚服。

尤其重要的，就是致力于改正你的习性，减少你的欲望，及精炼你崇高的本质去赢取神恩。每一步都为下一步铺路；那就是灵道的优点。你的力量和自信随着每一个步伐而提升，而你就得到一份比一份更大的神恩。

如步入老年始尝试控制你的欲望和感官，你可能得不到主的恩典。另一方面，如在年青时就致力于感官控制，毋庸置疑，你会获得神恩。

尽了你的能力而仍嫌不足，然后才请求我。我随时会以我的恩典增强你的努力。

个人的努力与神圣的恩典是互相依靠的。缺乏努力，就得不到神恩。缺乏神恩，就得不到努力的成果。要得到那圣恩，信心与德行在所必需。

神恩不能通过理性的技巧，瑜伽的修习法，或者苦行的克制来赢得。赢得之者唯爱而已，那是不需报偿的爱，不知讨价还价的爱，乐于支付给博爱者的爱，不左右摇摆的爱。只有爱能克服障碍，不论障碍有多少，有多大威力。

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最渴望的财富方式就是神的恩典。祂会保护你，有如眼睫毛之保护眼睛。切莫怀疑这一点。

要依赖神恩；赢取它并保持它。那么，不论风暴多大，你都可以安然度过。

是的，那就是恩典。受苦者获得我的恩典。只有透过痛苦，他们才会被說服而向内探索。而不向内探索，他们决不能躲开苦恼。

被剧痛折腾时，医生给你打吗啡针止痛。你不感到痛，虽然痛还在体内。恩典有如吗啡：使你不感到痛，但你挨过了！恩德带走你必须承受的恶毒。。。。

你可以说，过去的业的负担及其不可避免的果报迟早会到来，但是主的恩典能把那负担化为灰烬。

你的任何机能再也不会阻碍你的进步。祂会使你的机能适应最高的目标：感官，心念，潜意识，无意识，智能 --- 所有一切。神恩授予你一切所需。

只有通过主的恩典，人才能培育起向往不二论（advaita）的渴望。

神的恩典是最大的财富。以为财富和社会地位的象征就看金钱，黄金或其他物质的囤积来决定，那是大错特错的。反之，人生的目标应该是追求神恩的神圣财富。

Grace will set everything right. Its main consequence is “self-realization,” but there are other incidental benefits, too, like a happy, contented life here below and a cool, courageous temper, established in unruffled equanimity…This is the nature of grace. It fulfills a variety of wants.

God’s grace is as the shower of rain, as the sunlight. You have to do some sadhana (spiritual practice) to acquire it: the sadhana of keeping a pot upright to receive the rain, the sadhana of opening the door of your heart so that the sun may illumine it.

Water in lakes, pits, wells, and rivers is rain water, though the taste, color, name, and form are different, based on where the rain has fallen and how pure the container is. Divine grace is like rain, pure, pellucid, falling on all. How it is received and used depends on the heart of man.

If a person has a pure heart and is living Swami’s teachings, Swami’s grace is automatic. No karma can prevent that.

You can draw checks on a bank only when you have deposited therein, or you can mortgage your property and take a loan, or the bank may grant you an overdraft. The property on which you can take a loan is the “accumulated merit consequent on the good deeds of previous lives.” The overdraft on which you can draw in times of emergency is grace, which God showers when you are sincere and steady enough to deserve it. You must give some surety or someone as security to get a loan: the surety is divine grace; the security is the fixity of your faith, the solidarity of your surrender.

Above all, try to win grace by reforming your habits, reducing your desires, and refining your higher nature. One step makes the next one easier; that is the excellence of the spiritual journey. At each step, your strength and confidence increase and you get bigger and bigger installments of grace.

If at an advanced age you try to control your desires and senses, you may or may not win the Lord’s grace. On the other hand, if at this young age you control your sense organs, there is no doubt whatsoever that you will gain God’s grace.

When you have done your best and that is found not enough, then call on me. I am ever ready to reinforce your exertions with my grace.

Individual effort and divine grace are both interdependent. Without effort, there will be no conferment of grace. Without grace, there can be no gain from the effort. To win that grace, you need have only faith and virtue.

The grace of God cannot be won through the gymnastics of reason, the contortions of yoga, or the denials of asceticism. Love alone can win it, love that needs no requital, love that knows no bargaining, love that is paid gladly as tribute to the All-Loving, love that is unwavering. Love alone can overcome obstacles, however many and mighty.

The most desirable form of wealth is the grace of God. He will guard you, even as the lids guard the eye. Do not doubt this.

Rely on the grace of God; earn it and keep it. Then whatever the strength of the storm, you can survive it without harm.

It is grace. Those who suffer have my grace. Only through suffering will they be persuaded to turn inward and make the inquiry. And without turning inward and making inquiry, they can never escape misery.

When a severe pain torments you, the doctor gives you a morphine injection and you do not feel the pain, though it is there in the body. Grace is like the morphine: the pain is not felt, though you go through it! Grace takes away the malignity of the karma which you have to undergo…

You may say that the burden of past acts and their inevitable consequences have to be borne, but the grace of the Lord can burn that burden in a flash…

No more can any faculty of yours hinder your progress. He will orient all of your faculties towards the highest goal: the senses, the mind, the subconscious, the unconscious, the intelligence – all. Grace will confer all you need.

Through the grace of the Lord alone can man develop a desire for advaita, or nonduality of the universe, one without second.

God’s grace is the greatest wealth. To consider the amassing of money, gold, or other material objects as symbols of wealth and social prestige is incorrect. The goal of life, instead, should be the acquisition of the divine wealth of God’s grace.