Sri Aurobindo.... This resonates with me

"This understanding is not to be gained by reasoning, not by tapasya, nor by much learning, but whom This Self chooses To him it reveals it's own body". Well, that is the same thing as what we call divine grace,- it is an action from above or from within independent of mental causes which decides it's own movement. We can call it divine grace, we can call it the Self within choosing it's own hour and way to manifest to the mental instrument on the surface : we can call it the flowering of the inner being or inner nature to self realization and self knowledge. As something in us approaches it or as it presents itself to us, so the mind sees it. But in reality it is the same Thing and the same process of the being in nature. From Sri Aurobindo, Growing Within posted by Passionvine @ 4:06 PM Saturday, April 08, 2006