Grace/ Kripa (कृपा) can be of two types, one is general and other is special. General grace/ कृपा is for everyone but is not received by all. For example, Sun is giving light to all in the same manner but a blind person cannot see it. A guru is there to give grace but only those who associate with him will receive it. Thus we can say that a kind of qualification is required for experiencing grace.
On the other hand special kripa does not require anything. It first generates the qualification and then provides the grace too. But this is done by non-dual entity alone. One which is poorn or complete brahm. Apart from poorn brahm, none can provide this grace. Dual entity can provide only simple or general grace. Because grace is provided after making unqualified, qualified first. Actually this special kripa alone is real grace. Poorn is only completely free (मुक्त). In that state, desire alone is the cause and no karma is required.
Guru provides grace to the disciple but under the realm of karm. A siddha can not give grace but only fruit of karma. To take one out of misery is the purpose of grace. this alone is known as donating knowledge. A free person can provide ordinary grace because he is still in duality. His desire does not work till the recipient accepts it, only then it works on him. This is brahm's general grace. This helps to eradicate sanchit or accrued karma, also does not create new kamra. But destiny/ prarabdh (प्रारब्ध ) still remians. Because desire of complete Brahm itself is known as destiny. This is removed only after experiencing and not by any-other means. By experiencing pains (पाप), pains/ पाप is eradicated but experiencing pleasure Punya/ पुण्य (good deeds) are consumed. Both are basically development of desire of Poorn Brahm. Grace can be provided by,
A) 1.Poorn Brahm or God (पूर्ण ब्रह्म और भगवान): Special grace, one does not have to experience any thing of past.
B) 2.Parmukt Purush (परमुक्त पुरुष): They can provide partial special kripa. They provide Bhakti. They eradicate much of the karma bank but one has to expereince some of them.
B) 3.Apar mukt or Knowledgeable (ज्ञानी). Many karmas are removed, some are left. They provide knowledge.
C) 4.Siddh Purush (सिद्ध पुरुष) or Divines (देवता): They provide relief through karma, so it is not any kind of grace. A person receives his own karma fruit. Karma is not eradicated only bhog is experienced. It provides fruit or sidhi.
Till one achieves self-realization, One does not fall in the normal sight of god even. Only when Parabhakti arises, gaze of lord falls on the jeev. With rising of Kundalini (कुण्डलिनी) and consciousness, then one comes under the gaze of His Shakti. First, he comes under the gaze of divine and when Kundalini rises fully then he falls under the gaze of Mahamaya (महामाया). One who is not initiated/ अदीक्षित, he falls under the spell of Kaal/ काल or time and he is out of the sight of divine. One who is initiated/ दीक्षित, he falls under the the sight of divine.
Heart is called Atmakash/ आत्माकाश. There is no shadow of the world in it. Heart is purified by raising of Kundalini. Without its rising, heart is full of darkness. Scene (दृष्य) is seen outside and what ever is seen in the dreams is just shadow realm.
Another Point of view on Kripa:
Similarly same kind of (sajatiya/सजातीय) things joins together. As for fire, there are two different kinds, one is gross fire (transcient fire) and other is subtle one like in side the wood. When inner fire (anitya agni, eternal fire) of wood joins with the outer fire (nitya agni), then wood burning takes place. Drier the wood, lesser it would need the outside gross fire for burning. If wood is wet, it will need more outside gross fire to burn. Therefore, it means if inner fire less then we need outer fire more and if inner is less then we neeed outer more. More the wood at start lesser the fire but as fire becomes stronger and stronger, wood becomes lesser and lesser. When wood becomes ZERO/ शून्य, fire also subsides. When the wood starts burning at that time even if remove the coal which caused this fire in the first instant, fire still remains burning. So rising of fire in wood or complete consumption of wood is known and subsiding of fire at the end, This is known as Sparsh-Diksha/ स्पर्श् दीक्षा (initiation by touch). We may either put wood in fire or touch fire to the wod piece, sadhana occurs after the touch of fire only.
The outside gross fire cannot exist 100 %, as in that case whole world will burn and only fire will exist. Similalrly, on the other hand, if the inner fire, which is unmanifest inside the wood (for example), prevails 100 %, in that case too the world cannot exist and all the curtains (आवरण/avarans) will disappear. Eternal Fire from Cosmic level (व्यष्टि) joins with worldly (समष्टि) fire. Worldly fire is latent and arises progressively, when it rises to certain level, at that time it enflames and that is called siddhi/ सिद्धि.
Now lets connect it with sadhana part. What happens in sadhana. From Eternal agni-mandal/ नित्य अग्नि मण्डल, some percentage of fire is attracted and joins with some percentage of latent one inside wood etc. When both join to form 100% then siddhi takes place and fire appears. With sadhana, the outsude agni is attracted. The connection of the two agnis/ fires takes place with the help of sadhana, which nothing but pumping. Decent of the agnifrom the top is the fruit of sadhana. But when the controller of the realm of agni, by his own poer descends it joins it with the internal ire of thje sadhak then it is also called KRIPA. The fire which is attracted from the eternal / नित्य fire realm, it is coming from the middle of अनित्य/anitya exisiting fire. Where non-eternal fire is not present in the centre, there it is present in the gross manifested form. When it joined that joining occurred through the middle door, because shakti on getting concentrated always decends from the centre. Hence Humans, Siddhas and Divines all are cenrtalized.
What is the purpose of sadhana? It is either to increase the agni to the maximum or decrease it zero after complete consumption. So either we raise our ego (अहंकार) to the maximum or reduce it to the minimum. This completeness is achieved through fire. Ego does exist in the touch of awakend anitya fire but do exist in the middle. To raise it to maximum or reduce it to minimum, for this sadhana is needed. If sadhana is towards incrreasing of the ego then agni tries to reduce it and if it is towards reduction of the ego then fire tries to increase it. We can say that both Shukla paksh/ शुक्ल पक्ष (increasing moon period) and Krishna paksh/ कृष्ण पक्ष (reducing moon period) are to be removed, one through Sadhana and other through Fire.
Good is full of grace or we can say that grace is continuously oozing ot of him on the creation, but still people are not happy. It means without certain qualificaton, a jeev can be its receipient. Thus we can say that God himself cannot provide grace to all and on the same hand all do not qualify for His grace. Thus both are under certain rules, this is called cosmic law and order/ vidhi vidhan (विधि विधान).
Om! Shaktanand.
(from writings of Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj).
