THE AWAKENING OF SPIRITUAL LONGING HAS ITS COUNTERPART

 
When the disciple invites the grace of a Master it is not without reason. Sometimes the Master seems to impart spirituality to a disciple without any apparent effort or sacrifice on the part of the disciple, but the right to this favour has been earned by his endeavours in past lives.

The love and devotion felt for the Master through past lives have formed a deep connection between him and the Master, so that the awakening of spiritual longing has its counterpart in the grace which flows from the Master. It is through his own past unbinding Karma that a person invites the grace of the Master, just as it is through his own binding Karma that he invites upon himself the pleasure and pain as well as the good and evil of which he is the recipient.