I once saw a young girl, maybe 8 or 9 years old, on the side of the road in India. Covered in rags and grim and filth, half-starving, hair-matted with the pollution and dust of the slum she lived in, she approached a crying Western tourist to offer her a flower. The stunning grace with which this young girl, who had none of the advantages or securities of the Western woman on holiday, comforted and consoled a perfect stranger was beyond humbling. It was like looking at the face of God. No matter what is going on in the Universe, Love itself still has Love to offer you. These moments of grace, where you might expect to see the worst humanity has to offer but instead see the best, make me proud to be human.
Grace is an incredibly powerful thing. It makes you simultaneously self-confident and humble, it gives you courage and generosity, and gives you an inner radiance and indescribable beauty. Grace is sweetness of words, tenderness of heart, and strength of spirit.
Yogi Bhajan said that the 10th Pauri of Japji, when recited 11 times, grants grace.
For me, when I pull apart the words within this pauri, I find for myself where grace lies here. This pauri is another "Suniai" pauri, where you sing yourself a song about listening to the sacred sound current. By raising your vibration in this way, truthfulness, inner peace, divine wisdom, purity and respect all come to you. When one is existing in a state of grace, one is all of these things, and so grace is the gift basket full of all of these wonderful blessings that are bestowed through the practice of Suniai, listening.
Grace isn't something that's for some people and not for others. All of us, every single one, have within us grace. Some of us act and behave in ways that make it difficult for ourselves and others to experience grace while interacting with us. Chanting is one of the ways that can shift you so that grace has an easier time being expressed. But the world isn't divided into graceful people and ungraceful people, although sometimes it can seem that way. Life is divided into graceful moments and ungraceful moments. The question that we must ask ourselves is...how much time will we spend being graceful? How much time will we spend listening to the sacred sound of the vibration of the Universe, and so be lead to moments where, no matter what we have or don't have, we can offer a total stranger a moment of comfort by sharing something as simple a divine little flower.
Grace is beyond any one religion, beyond any one path to God. Grace is Love incarnate, through you, as you. How will you be graceful today? How will you Love today?
The 10th Pauri of Japji
Suniai sat santokh giaan.
Suniai athsath isnaan.
Suniai par par paavah maan.
Suniai laagai sahaj diaan.
Naanak bhagtaa sadaa vigaas.
Suniai dukh paap kaa naas.
A beautiful version of Suniai by Prabhu Nam Kaur.
Find Suniai by Wah! on this album.
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