A few have caught the flame, cleansed their souls in the Hour of God. But even they those who have caught the flame are not ready enough to live and move in the wide Eternity of God, in its splendour and in its glory, live here upon earth in its brightness, bright in the flame of immortality. When the moment comes, it is the Grace that comes to lift us up; the moment comes, and it is not we who cause that moment; what is expected of us is to be always ready to receive it. But hardly there is anyone who perceives its coming and, if at all he perceives, does he receive it. “I want twelve disciples to change the world.” But where are they? And one will betray him before the cock crows in the morning: "It is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread when I have dipped it." The grace will come and the will is there, but only when grace becomes will and will grace is there a possibility of redemption. Much beyond redemption is the total change of nature, transformation even of the physical, it opening to the grace and the will. That is Savitri’s task, and she has to do it by doing yoga-tapasya so that our will-and-action is identified with the highest possible will-and-grace.

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