RECEPTIVENESS

In order to experience God’s grace I must be receptive to it.  Grace is not a passive thing where I am to just sit quietly and wait for it to happen to me.  I must work for it, pray for it, as doing so makes me receptive to it. 

“The breeze of God’s grace is always blowing; set your sails to catch this breeze,” Vedanta teaches. 

I may have the grace of my spiritual teacher, may have the grace of Christ and the Atman, for example, but if I do not have the grace of my own mind the others have nothing for me.  I must be open to grace.

Christ said: “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you;” and the Upanishads say: “Whom the Atman chooses, by him is he attained.”  Still, I must be welcoming to grace.