Experiencing the Grace of God….By Ram

It was a pleasant evening, as we all assembled to do a group meditation in an old age home. It houses aged women for their stay, as even some are differently abled. Everyone greeted me with love as I entered to be part of this program. To start with, I explained them how to be connected with the God during meditation. The connectivity happens, when one becomes thoughtless and disconnected with world outside in the meditation merely keeping the focus on the divine light in the heart. A supposition for this connectivity.

The meditation kept these elderly souls bound to their inner World keeping away from the struggles and situations that would have brought them to wherever they are. The cool breeze on this winter evening engulfed us in serenity. Just got united in the divine connection effortlessly with multiple people meditating together. Always said, the group meditation or prayers multiplies exponentially the individual act. 

As we finished, an elderly women asked me, How to know that we are experiencing the grace of God? The question really amazed me, as the same thought was there in my mind few days back. Happened to even hear a lecture by one of the enlightened soul explaining that. What a real coincidence, encountering the same search. I attempted to answer that explaining the normal philosophy of that we are divided into mind, body and Soul. The body and mind are acquired here and the soul is eternal. It is difficult to perceive with the limitation of the mind what grace of God is. The mind activities are purely the outcome of experiences through five senses what we have had in our life. Then, this limited mind cannot perceive the unlimited grace surrounding us all the time. That brought me to a stop to rethink, then how do we experience the grace. Not sure, whether I gave a convincing reply with my limited knowledge. But the question tagged along with me, as I returned back from that place.

Is the grace shine on us through Light of the Sun, moon and celestial objects or the air we breathe or water and food we take to keep us alive or being in places of worship or anything beyond all these? If that was so, how do I know that I am experiencing the grace. Even, I have heard many saying the actions we do is because of His grace. That is all the presumption for one to accept it with blind faith. I went ahead in further thinking, is it not that anything that is making us joy is the way to experience the Grace. It may be an external thing or internal state of being. Joy is conceived to be beyond happiness or it is even mentioned as bliss. As I walk on the road, a glance at beautiful flower which reflected my inner beauty can also be said to be a grace. Again, am I using my mind to experience it or was my soul experiencing it?

A question that made me to ponder over and over again, still that search remains in me. I may be reflecting many of you, in this search. Let that search be on in this Journey of life walking with His Grace knowingly or unknowingly. In any way, I will end up benefiting by that Grace.
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Written by : Ramesh Kumar K (Ram)

Founder and CEO of Aikya-Oneness Foundation

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