Are You Prepared for Grace?

A lady got up from the last row and spoke loudly: “Swami, I need your Grace”. The lady repeated these words a number of times. Suddenly, the Lord stopped, turned towards her and said, "Grace, Grace, do you really know the meaning of Grace?" The lady replied: “Swami, it means Your compassion, Your blessings”.

Baba said: “No, it means much more than that. If you really want My Grace, you should prepare yourself to face every type of calamity. You will lose all your wealth and happiness and still instead of crying and repenting. You will have to completely merge yourself in meditating upon Me and utter My Name in your heart. Your near and dear Ones will turn against you. People will implicate you in conspiracies with which you have nothing to do. They will find faults with you where you are totally innocent. Under all such circumstances, you will have simply to think of Me and Me alone and suffer everything silently. Come on, are you prepared to face all these things?” The lady was stunned. She could not utter a word and sat down quietly.