Gravity and Grace

Sadhguru JAGGI VASUDEV says there are any number of intelligent and capable people around, but they get stuck at every corner because they operate without lubrication — without GraceMany truly scintillating human beings have happened in our history, shining brighter than the stars in the sky. Why are a few human beings of this capability, and why do so many other aimless millions just come and go without a trace? People always say, “He is gifted.” No one is gifted. There is really no gift about anything. You have to earn everything. Either you earn joyfully or you earn miserably. That is the choice. 
If you look at yourself as a machine, you have brains, you have body, you have everything, but what you call Grace is the lubrication. Without lubrication, you have a great engine but you get stuck at every point. There are a number of people like this on the planet — they are intelligent and capable but at every corner in their life they get stuck because there is no lubrication, there is no Grace.
What is Grace? In this existence, energy is functioning in many different ways. It is functioning as sunlight, as breeze, as gravity. Similarly, it is also functioning as Grace. Gravity is trying to pull you down, the breeze is trying to blow you off, the sun is trying to burn you up. Grace is trying to pluck you off from the planet. I am using negative terminology purposely so you do not get attached to it. It could also be said, “The Earth is trying to hug you, the breeze is trying to cool you, the sun is trying to warm you. Grace is trying to make you grow.”

Defying Gravity

Grace is trying to pluck you off from the limitations in which you are stuck right now, including the planet, people, body, mind, and emotions — everything. If you look at it as a law, gravity is trying to pull everything down. Grace is trying to pull everything up. If you are very physical, you give in to gravity. If you touch dimensions beyond the physical, you become available to Grace.
In many ways, people may become momentarily available to Grace, and that is when they experience miraculous situations in their lives. In some way, they were not so identified with their physicality, and they became available to Grace. Grace is not something that you practise; it is something that you arrive at. Grace is something that you allow — you allow it to descend upon you. All sadhana in the world, whether it is puja, asana, or kriya, is done only to make you less physical so that you become more available to Grace. Ultimately, the real work is done only by Grace. Your business is to make yourself less and less physical and more available. 

Grace will do the rest.

To become receptive to Grace so that the process of life becomes graceful, the simplest and easiest way, and also the most self-destructive way, is devotion. But the mind is very cunning. It cannot devote itself to anyone or anything. You can sing songs of devotion, but you have your own calculation, “What will God do for me?” Calculating minds cannot be devout. Trying to be devout will just be a waste of time and life
minds cannot be devout. Trying to be devout will just be a waste of time and life
even if God is not existent, it can bring it into existence.
Just knowing devotion as an emotional experience is one thing. Knowing devotion as an overpowering dimension of life is a different thing. Knowing devotion just as an emotion maybe makes your life a little sweet, but devotion is not intended to make your life sweet. Devotion means dissolution. Devotion is intended to completely demolish the way you are. Devotion is that which is devoid of you; you simply allow Grace of existence to flow through you. If you walk with devotion, slowly, you will fall into the Lap of Grace.
--Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev