Will the grace of God help us even if we are not adopting His advice?

[This question was posed to Swami on the auspicious occasion of Guru Purnima.]

Swami replied: We go to a doctor with immense faith on him that he will certainly cure our illness. The faith was correct and the doctor gave the prescription recommending a very good medicine. Without purchasing and taking that medicine, will our illness be cured by the grace of the doctor, merely due to our immense faith in him? Similarly, when God shows us the correct path to reach the correct goal, we must practically walk on it, without asking God to carry us along the path on His shoulders! Showing the correct path is better than carrying us on wrong path! Of course, God is omnipotent, unlike the doctor and can additionally show grace on us, which can carry us to the goal. But why should God show such reasonless partiality towards us? Is it proper on our part to ask God to carry us on the correct path, when we are capable of walking on the correct path?

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| Shri Datta Swami | Will the grace of God help us even if we are not adopting His advice? |

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