Karma - Action and Reaction - Grace, the Most Effective Antidote Part 03

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Karma - Action and Reaction - Grace, the Most Effective Antidote

Part 03

 

 

If we are bitten by a poisonous snake, we want an antidote. Once

bitten, it is too late to take preventive measures. We need fast

relief or we will succumb to the attack. Grace is the antidote for

the poisons of the world.

 

Through divine grace the effects of action may be either totally

removed or made painless, though still present. God's grace can

overcome any obstacle, however immense. When we earn God's love and

grace we may be relieved of a mountain of sin. There is no limit to

God's power.

 

" You might be say that the karma of previous births has to be

consumed in this birth and that no amount of grace can save you from

that. Evidently, someone has taught you to believe so. But I assure

you, you need not suffer from karma like that. When a severe pain

torments you, the doctor gives you a morphine injection and you do

not feel the pain,though it is still there in the body. Grace is

like a morphine; the pain is not felt,though you go through it!...

Or the Lord can save a man completely from the consequences, as was

done by me for the bhakta whose paralytic stroke and heart attacks I

took over some months ago in the Gurupournima week " Baba

 

Difficult karma may be removed either by the grace of the Lord or

with counteracting karma. But if the lesson of that pain has not

been learned, the lesson may have to be repeated. Some people are

healed of dreadful diseases by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai baba, while

others are not.

 

It may be difficult to understand why. But the Lord sees all the

factors involved. He knows who needs to learn the leassons of

sickness, and who is ready to be freed from the burden. Events which

seem unfortunate are sometimes for our own good. To erase the

results of evil action is no favor if we must repeat the leasson. We

are fortunate when we are able to meet and overcome past burdens.

Each obstacle surmounted brings us nearer to the unitive experience

of Atma/Brahman

 

Continued...Karma - Action and Reaction - The Best Course Part 04