ATDTDA - grace

[Keith]

When Westerners think of 'grace' they quickly go to the Christian  
sense of grace in a judicial sense. Lew's 'grace' is the grace of  
Hinduism or Buddhism (see 48:18 - 'disciplined in the ways of the  
East'), a grace which results in an egoless state which leads to an  
unbearable realization that things are exactly as they are. It is a  
grace which leads to luminosity (42:21) as opposed to darkness and is  
one of the layers of TRP's light/dark theme in ATD.

"Your doubts will never be totally destroyed until perception has  
gone beyond mere phenomenality, and such perception is not a matter  
of will but of Grace."     --Ramesh Balsekar

This quote parallels 'a condition he had no memory of having sought'

Lew's state of luminosity is grace because Lew was not seeking it,  
not doing anything to make it happen.


On Feb 10, 2007, at 10:28 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:


P. 42:
"One mild and ordinary work-morning in Chicago, Lew happened to find  
himself on a public conveyance, head and eyes inclined nowhere in  
particular, when he entered, all too briefly, a condition he had no  
memory of having sought, which he later came to think of as grace."   
Next paragraph:  "He understood that things were exactly what they  
were.  It seemed more than he could bear."