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UNADORNED GRACE
long and I was addressing myself to understand the same.
He while assuring us his help to the best of his capacity all through, was pleading with us to put in efforts and said that would count most. Yet we have a notion of the infallibility of the master once he deigns to help us and we entertain a feeling our effort is not all that necessary. This is one of the greatest errors in the thinking of the devotees who some how believe in the proposition of getting rewards for no effort.
On some occasions bitter words that are not even sugar coated pills are given to us by the master. However our minds are capable of coating the same with honey that ensures total misunderstanding the message. He says very plainly without any polish that “Suffering is the root and the results are flowers which every associate should strive hard to have.” This he said in the context of emphasizing the importance of character. Was he asking us to strive hard to have sufferings! How sweet of him!
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