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.
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | Three Stages of Spiritual Life | 2 |
| 3 | Purusakara versus Kypa | 3 |
| 4 | Spirituality Pervades All Human Life | 4 |
| 5 | Purusakara: Its Importance for Child Development | 6 |
| 6 | Purusakara: The Opening Note in the Toga-Song of the Gita | 7 |
| 7 | Vivekananda’s Spirituality of Manliness | 9 |
| 8 | Vedantic Atmajnana: Its Wide Relevance | 11 |
| 9 | Atma-jnana and the Emotionally Disturbed Child | 12 |
| 10 | Renunciation: Timid vs. Heroic | 13 |
| 11 | The Gitã Message of Manliness Leading to Godliness | 14 |
| 12 | Self-Surrender: The Closing Note in the Toga-Song of the Gita | 16 |
| 13 | The Passage from Self-reliance to Self- surrender | 19 |
| 14 | True Self-surrender: Two Outstanding Examples | 21 |
| 15 | The Strength of Self-reliance and the Super-Strength of Self-surrender | 22 |
| 16 | ‘Be a Bhakta but Not a Bokã’ | 25 |
| 17 | Divine Grace: Its Presence Behind Self-reliance and Self-surrender | 26 |
| 18 | Divine Grace in the Indian Tradition | 31 |
| 19 | Some World’s Mystics on Divine Grace | 49 |
| 20 | Sri Ramakrishna and the Unity of God the Personal and God the Impersonal | 56 |
| 21 | Divine Grace and the Philosophy of Non-effort | 60 |
| 22 | Philosophy of Non-effort versus Creativity | 67 |
| 23 | The Struggle to Become Grace-worthy | 73 |
| 24 | Conclusion | 77 |
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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.
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | Three Stages of Spiritual Life | 2 |
| 3 | Purusakara versus Kypa | 3 |
| 4 | Spirituality Pervades All Human Life | 4 |
| 5 | Purusakara: Its Importance for Child Development | 6 |
| 6 | Purusakara: The Opening Note in the Toga-Song of the Gita | 7 |
| 7 | Vivekananda’s Spirituality of Manliness | 9 |
| 8 | Vedantic Atmajnana: Its Wide Relevance | 11 |
| 9 | Atma-jnana and the Emotionally Disturbed Child | 12 |
| 10 | Renunciation: Timid vs. Heroic | 13 |
| 11 | The Gitã Message of Manliness Leading to Godliness | 14 |
| 12 | Self-Surrender: The Closing Note in the Toga-Song of the Gita | 16 |
| 13 | The Passage from Self-reliance to Self- surrender | 19 |
| 14 | True Self-surrender: Two Outstanding Examples | 21 |
| 15 | The Strength of Self-reliance and the Super-Strength of Self-surrender | 22 |
| 16 | ‘Be a Bhakta but Not a Bokã’ | 25 |
| 17 | Divine Grace: Its Presence Behind Self-reliance and Self-surrender | 26 |
| 18 | Divine Grace in the Indian Tradition | 31 |
| 19 | Some World’s Mystics on Divine Grace | 49 |
| 20 | Sri Ramakrishna and the Unity of God the Personal and God the Impersonal | 56 |
| 21 | Divine Grace and the Philosophy of Non-effort | 60 |
| 22 | Philosophy of Non-effort versus Creativity | 67 |
| 23 | The Struggle to Become Grace-worthy | 73 |
| 24 | Conclusion | 77 |
