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It Is Your Business
Ishta Devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on the path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can the spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature.
Spiritual life is an interplay of grace and effort. What are their relative roles for the success of spiritual endeavour? We find the Maharshi stressing at every opportunity, effort, vigilant and ceaseless effort. The reason for this is not far to see. For, one is already 'neck-deep in grace'. A spiritual aspirant can be sure of one thing - the constancy of the Satguru's grace. It need not be asked for, since it is already given unasked. Yet, we find devotees pestering Ramana for grace and getting repeated assurances about it from him. This is understandable, for the actual working of grace is intangible.
One is unaware of the operation of the grace. Major Chadwick once asked Ramana why there was no evident change in him inspite of his being in his physical proximity as an inmate of the Asram. Ramana pointed out that 'though the change would undoubtedly be there it was not felt because it was not measurable'. Guru's grace is there all along the way, aiding effort by sustaining and strengthening the spiritual mood.
Grace cannot be present sometimes and absent at other times since it is 'directed' by the Satguru, whose very nature is grace. In a manner of speaking, therefore, one can take for granted the invigorating flow of Ramana's grace extending protection and guidance in one's moments of despair and in every situation.
Since grace is always available in abundant measure to those linked to a Satguru, what has to be focused on is the effort required, the other factor in the search for truth. It is only through effort, through meditation, through self-enquiry that one awakens to the flow of grace. Hence Ramana says that grace is vouchsafed only for those who put in the necessary effort. Grace is active for them.
If there is no 'vichara' grace becomes dormant. Yet again there is so much emphasis on practice in the 'Ramana Way', because what matters is the experiencing of the natural state of bliss for oneself and remaining steadfast in it. This experience has to be earned by hard practice. God, though 'kinder than one's own mother', does not spoon-feed one with experience. One may ask why. It is only for those who have completely surrendered their individual volition that the Satguru can take over completely. Such persons are rare. For the rest, actions are performed with a dominant sense of doership.
To be continued
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