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 Tuesday 01 September 2026

GRACE AND EFFORT

Swami Sivananda

The idea of effort comes into being through the attribution of an aspect of the power of universal consciousness and activity to the individual. It is an inexorable law that he who does the action should enjoy the fruit of that action. The law of causation operates as long as one clings on to it with faith. The causal chain breaks only when the central Self is realised. As the absolute Will of God has nothing particular to achieve,— for it is already accomplished perfection—it has no fruit of action to experience. God does not act like the ignorant Jiva, and if action is to be taken in the sense of motion in a spatial and temporal world to which only the limited individual is bound, God's actions and the workings of His Will cannot be explained by man. If the Jiva or the individual knows fully and realises that all actions are God's actions, all events are the fulfilment of God's Will, and that the Jiva does not and cannot perform any action independently without rooting its reality in God, the Jiva is certainly liberated. For such a Jiva there is nothing to do in this world; it has no bondage; it is one with the Supreme Reality itself. Contd…


Seek not God for favours. Such favours cannot bring you near to God. Cultivate Nishkama-Bhakti. Pine for His Grace and Mercy.

- Swami Sivananda

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