When you have filled your heart with sympathy for the distressed, the Lord will shower His grace.
Draupadi had earned the grace through her devotion and virtues. Sita, too, stuck to the highest ideal of life, in spite of the severe suffering she underwent. Hanuman, who discovered her in the grove where she was kept as a prisoner by her abductor, offered to re-cross the ocean with her on his shoulders and take her safe to her Lord, Rama. But she replied that she will not allow herself to be abducted back from the custody of Ravana since that will deprive Rama of the chance to punish him for his crime and retrieve her through his own heroism! Splendid words, these! Quite in consonance with the dictates of Dharma! No wonder the Lord's grace saved her in good time!
If you have no steadfastness and no depth of faith,
you can have no grace.
you can have no grace.
(From the Divine Discourses of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
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