Two powers in their conjunction bring about the great consummation aimed at. The personal effort and the Divine grace. one prepares the field so the other fructifies and fulfils it. but personal effort is not absolute in its effectivity, cause it is limited, relative and conditional. It does not by itself lead you to the final and supreme realisation. it may take you to the threshold of Grace which follows up the work and brings it to its goal. Indeed it has also been said that personal effort itself is operative when inspired and impelled by the Grace. quoting from the Gita.
By your effort and tapasya you are capable of withdrawing yourself from the magic world of the senses, get detached from the sense objects. but the secret attachment, the taste, the subtle interest for them goes only when the Supreme is visioned.
Raso'pyasa param drstva nivartate.
The Upanishad also says the highest is visible only when of its own accord it unveils itself.
Yamevaisa urnute tena labhyah.
The actual function or role of personal effort is that of a guide, to give the preliminary experiences initiate into the basic mysteries in order to prepare the vessel that is to house the Supreme.
Remember however that the Supreme is not amenable to your control the grace goes wherever it chooses to go. it also does not weigh or examine the amount of your preparation, it has its own manner of choosing. But the preparation that your personal effort effectuates is helpful for the working of the Grace, not for the initial descent but to hold maintain and establish it adhar.
Only a little of the God light can stay.
So how does one make the God light stay forever.
Here then is the special utility of the personal effort, the service it can render so to say, personal effort with the ego sense there to find out and note the barriers and pitfalls, the faults and the fissures in the human system. The work is to overcome remedy and correct as far as possible. Initially the human receptacle is impure and obscure, resistant and recalcitrant. the personal will and endeavour has to be called in to labour, to level and smoothen the field, breath air into and bring light. to make a strong base strong and capacious to receive and hold the descent. the temple has to be made clean and pure and inviting so that when the deity arrives he will find it a happy place for a permanent dwelling. Personal effort has a high value it means collaboration goodwill and readiness to fall inline with the Divine plan. it signifies the assent of the lower consciousness to the level of the higher one a conscious cooperation for the Lord has declared.
"I will pursue thee across the century;
Though shalt be hunted through the world by love,
Naked of ignorance protecting veil..............
Nowhere shalt thy escape my loving eyes."
so the whole nature in all its parts and functions is to be corrected re oriented gradually tempered and stream lined polarised so that it is made one pointed, supple and obedient and responsive. Personal effort is thus a training in collaboration. from inertia and indifference, unwillingness and even positive hostility to rise into cooperation and comradeship. that is the discipline that personal effort gives to the mortal being, from cooperation and collaboration to union and identity with the supreme goal effort merging into a spontaneous execution of the Divine Will the personal melting into the impersonal person that is the consummation brought about by Grace. That it is the process of fixing upon earth the fleeting Godhead.
By your effort and tapasya you are capable of withdrawing yourself from the magic world of the senses, get detached from the sense objects. but the secret attachment, the taste, the subtle interest for them goes only when the Supreme is visioned.
Raso'pyasa param drstva nivartate.
The Upanishad also says the highest is visible only when of its own accord it unveils itself.
Yamevaisa urnute tena labhyah.
The actual function or role of personal effort is that of a guide, to give the preliminary experiences initiate into the basic mysteries in order to prepare the vessel that is to house the Supreme.
Remember however that the Supreme is not amenable to your control the grace goes wherever it chooses to go. it also does not weigh or examine the amount of your preparation, it has its own manner of choosing. But the preparation that your personal effort effectuates is helpful for the working of the Grace, not for the initial descent but to hold maintain and establish it adhar.
Only a little of the God light can stay.
So how does one make the God light stay forever.
Here then is the special utility of the personal effort, the service it can render so to say, personal effort with the ego sense there to find out and note the barriers and pitfalls, the faults and the fissures in the human system. The work is to overcome remedy and correct as far as possible. Initially the human receptacle is impure and obscure, resistant and recalcitrant. the personal will and endeavour has to be called in to labour, to level and smoothen the field, breath air into and bring light. to make a strong base strong and capacious to receive and hold the descent. the temple has to be made clean and pure and inviting so that when the deity arrives he will find it a happy place for a permanent dwelling. Personal effort has a high value it means collaboration goodwill and readiness to fall inline with the Divine plan. it signifies the assent of the lower consciousness to the level of the higher one a conscious cooperation for the Lord has declared.
"I will pursue thee across the century;
Though shalt be hunted through the world by love,
Naked of ignorance protecting veil..............
Nowhere shalt thy escape my loving eyes."
so the whole nature in all its parts and functions is to be corrected re oriented gradually tempered and stream lined polarised so that it is made one pointed, supple and obedient and responsive. Personal effort is thus a training in collaboration. from inertia and indifference, unwillingness and even positive hostility to rise into cooperation and comradeship. that is the discipline that personal effort gives to the mortal being, from cooperation and collaboration to union and identity with the supreme goal effort merging into a spontaneous execution of the Divine Will the personal melting into the impersonal person that is the consummation brought about by Grace. That it is the process of fixing upon earth the fleeting Godhead.
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