Question:
How are we brought to meditation?
Maharaj Charan Singh Ji:
By the Grace of the Lord. There is no other way. We may say that we have become
devotees of the Lord because we have found the right teachings, we have found
the path, we have found the Master.
It would be quite wrong to think so. Actually, when He wants to put us on the Path, when He wants to give us His devotion, He creates such circumstances that we have no option but to follow that Path.
We are ultimately drawn to the Path. It is all in His hands. When He wishes it, everything becomes clear to us. First is His grace. With His grace we will meet a Master.
Through contact with the Master we will be put on the Path, and with our efforts we invoke His grace to travel on that Path until ultimately our practice will lead us to our Home and we merge back into Him.
Everything is interconnected. Without the Lord’s grace, nothing can happen.
From:
Maharaj Charan Singh Ji
The Master Answers to Audiences in America
Punjab (India): Radha Soami Satsang Beas, 1966
Pp. 143-144
Lees over Maharaj Charan Singh Ji.