Swami Ranganathananda, who has been for the last few years meeting cultured and earnest audiences in many parts of the world and sharing with them the inspiring Vedantic ideas, especially as taught and lived by Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, was invited in 1978 to address the members of the Beacon Yoga Centre, Sivananda Ashrama, Perth, Western Australia. On the 20th June of that year he gave them discourse on Divine Grace which was keenly appreciated. As God’s Grace is one of the seminal concepts in many a major religion and as an understanding of the nature and the working of Grace can provide solutions to most of the tension-generating problems of today, we thought it advantageous to publish the lecture in book form so that its message may reach a wider audience than the limited circle that could hear the Swami in person.

We are thankful to Swami Kirtidananda, Secretary, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Students’ Home, Mylapore, for finding time in the midst of his heavy official duties to prepare an informative Index to the book as a labour of love.