Ananya-Bhakti: Īśvara Con't.
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 02/07/2017

This series is classified Viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda | Bhakti-yoga | Svapna | Anāhata-cakra
God is the source and totality of all the power that we see manifest in this universe. Thus, every single activity or happening here is impelled, driven and controlled by Him. As an ancient Tamil proverb says, avan arul andri or anuvum asaiyadu: ‘except by His Grace, not even an atom moves’. 

What is the will of God? It is His love just to be. He is the infinite fullness of Being, and the nature of true Self-conscious Being is to love the Self. Because He is the infinite fullness of absolute happiness, what He truly loves is nothing other than His own natural state of Being. 

Since He is all-powerful, nothing can happen without His consent. And since He is all-loving, nothing can happen that is not for the true benefit of all concerned, even though our limited human intellect may be unable to understand how each happening is truly good and beneficial. 

Since God alone truly exists, He sees everything as His own Being; hence He loves us as His own Self. Therefore God’s will is that we should remain only as our unadulterated and perfectly happy Self-conscious Being, just as He does. 

Everything that we experience is shaped and regulated by God’s Grace, which is the power of His infinite love for us—His all-consuming love that we should just be as the true Self-conscious Being that is the real Self, both of Himself and ourself. To experience the infinite happiness of Being, we need do nothing other than to surrender entirely to His all-loving and all-powerful will. 

As a finite mind, our power is very limited, and we are confused about the true nature of the Reality, which is our true Self. Therefore we can never experience the absolute clarity of true Self-knowledge by our power—that is, by the power of this inherently confused mind. 

To experience that true clarity, we have to depend entirely upon God’s infinite power of Grace. Grace is nothing other than that true clarity, which always exists within us as our real Self—that is, as our perfectly clear Self-conscious Being, ‘I-I’. 

So long as the mind tries to assert its own self-deluded power, which is only a power to ‘do’, we can never experience the absolute peace and joy of simply Being. 

We can experience absolute peace and joy only when the mind entirely surrenders the confused and misleading power of its own self-deluded will, and entirely depends instead upon the power of our true and essential Being—that is, upon the Grace or clarity of our Self-consciousness, ‘I-I’, which is the power just to ‘be’.

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