GRACE IS A MUST FOR SELF-REALIZATION

Why it is said that Grace is a must for Self-realization? What this fundamentally means is, you cannot achieve Self-realization with your efforts only though efforts are needed. Effort means mind and mind is nothing but ego. Mind is a doer. Mind or ego is ignorance itself. So how ignorance can remove ignorance? How mind can remove mind? Self-realization is beyond mind, it’s transcendental. 

For Self-realization what is needed is to go beyond mind. You have to drop your mind first. Unfortunately we are so infatuated with our mind that we want to achieve everything with our mind. Mind is needed for physical achievements but not at all for the spiritual growth. For example, though with mind you can know things on the outside but with mind you cannot know the knower or that dimension with which you know the things on the outside. You see the objects on the outside but you do not know a thing about the seer or that which sees or with which you see the objects on the outside. Why? Because we are too lost in the outside. Mind means outside; mind means others. With mind you can know a lot about the outside but for knowing the knower which is nothing but Grace you need to turn inward. Turning inward means you start becoming available to the Grace. It’s like the sun which lightens up the whole existence and whose light is spread all around and yet for knowing the sun you will have to look in that direction. Since we have never looked in that direction and hence we missed the knower or the Self. We are always looking in and lost in the opposite direction and that’s why missing the Self. Mind means outward direction. For grace you need to turn inward because the Grace or Self is within. You need to switch your focus from outward to inward. When you bring your focus inward then you become available to the Grace. Grace is another name for Self. It’s the Consciousness. It’s the energy of the existence and source of creation. Grace is transcendental. Further Consciousness is not individual like my body and your body or my mind and your mind. There is no such thing as my consciousness or your consciousness. Consciousness is universal. When you turn inward you become available to that universal dimension. The day comes when you lose your individuality (mind or ego) completely and you as an ego merge with the universal which is what we term as Self-realization. Realizing the self is ‘mukti’ or liberation – liberation from the physical which is completer freedom. 

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