About Godly Grace
By eminent yoga teacher Gregorian Bivolaru
Godly Grace is a mysterious, never-ending, overwhelming reality that exists in the Being and intimate Reality of God the Father. Under certain conditions, either when Godly Grace is invoked with a strong, profound and complete faith, or when a group or a human being deserves it, Godly Grace overflows in full. This Godly Grace then manifests itself through the Godly Gifts which are awakened in that person, through the dynamization of certain vocations or through the awakening and amplification of certain faculties which are transmitted and assimilated in the inner universe through the mysterious influence of the Holy Spirit.
It is important to remember – if the human being invokes the Grace of God with a strong, profound and total faith, when he is prepared and sufficiently pure, it becomes possible for Godly Grace to pour into his inner universe, triggering mysterious processes of occult resonance and making it possible to benefit both from the supernatural gifts and sublime, paradisiacal, endless energies, and from the metaphysical realities that exist eternally in the Intimate Being of God.
Through the outpouring of Godly Grace upon him, profound transformations are triggered in the human being, who becomes capable of pure, profoundly beneficial actions far beyond the capacities of his nature.
The word “grace” also means “favour”. The outpouring of Godly Grace into man’s inner universe is accompanied by certain extraordinary, sublime effects: among other aspects, it brings about a very special state of relief, of liberation, removing the impression of heaviness or difficulty and making it possible to overcome a state of automatism, of rigidity and limitation. In its peak moments, Godly Grace makes us tangential to the limitless, to the paradisiacal, to the bliss that exists eternally in the profound being of God.
The outpouring of this Grace into man’s inner universe is intimately connected with an overwhelming impression of lightness, creativity, fullness of life and Godly inspiration.
Its energies are the very essence of God’s gift, offered to man when he deserves it or when he sincerely, humbly and faithfully implores God to fill him with the energies of His Grace. But we should not lose sight of the fact that always, without exception, the energies of Godly Grace are poured into the human being with the mysterious help of the Holy Spirit. Godly Grace summarizes the relationship between God and man, starting from this gift.
It helps us to triumph over sin and death
The human being is always in need of the manifestation of Godly Grace, in order then to respond with gratitude and love to these outpourings of mysterious energies. The whole Bible testifies to the profound and overwhelming manifestation of Godly Grace, whose mysterious energies enable us to discover the unfathomable love of God. The Heavenly Father’s solicitude for human beings is manifested in forgiveness, mercy and compassion. God often responds to people’s unbelief with an outpouring of love. Godly Grace has been unceasingly manifested in the course of many historical events.
God bestows his Grace especially on multitudes of human beings who implore Him in unison, with humility and strong faith.
Through the energies of this Supreme Grace, the human being awakens the Kingdom of Heaven in his inner universe and thus becomes capable of discovering its mysterious reality in the world beyond. The mysterious energies of Godly Grace are accessible to all people, most often in close connection with the merits they possess.
However, there are situations when Godly Grace is offered to human beings as a perfectly free Godly gift, without regard to their merits.
The subtle energies of Godly Grace awaken in man a power which enables him to triumph over sin, over death, and gives him the state of Godly freedom. The discovery of the mysterious reality of God also highlights the overwhelming ocean of the energies of His Grace which overflow into the universe of the human being and cause him to experience overwhelming, indescribable states of Godly ecstasy.
It expands us from the finite to the infinite
The mysterious energies of Godly Grace impel and sustain the human being to participate in a profound and overwhelming way in God’s life, enabling him to intuit the destiny reserved for him from the very moment of his appearance in the world. The outpouring of the mysterious energies of Godly Grace into the inner human universe is always an overwhelming mystery which fills with awe and gratitude those who have the privilege of receiving it, and at the same time they discover that God truly exists and calls them to participate in His Godly life.
In order to enjoy the extraordinary blessings of Godly Grace, human beings need to cooperate in some way with this gift.
The effects that Godly Grace generates in our inner universe when it overflows in overwhelming waves are Godly Enlightenment, broad and profound purification, and deepening of communion and expansion of being in the endless beatific reality of God’s essence.
The outpouring of the mysterious energies of Godly Grace transforms human beings in a profound and definitive way and makes them, in a certain sense, like God. The mysterious energies of Godly Grace awaken and intensify within them the ineffable state of communion with the essential reality of God the Father.
The outpouring of the mysterious energies of Godly Grace always expands man’s consciousness from the finite to the infinite, revealing to him a reality of astonishing vastness, which is universal and even macrocosmic. The energies of Godly Grace extraordinarily help people to discover God’s reality and propel them to the state of spiritual liberation.
It makes every miracle possible
The state of helplessness in which the sinner often indulges, refusing to do good, should be abolished, healed and transformed within his being by the mysterious energies of Godly Grace. In this way, the human being discovers within himself the power to transform himself through the Godly energies of Grace and will be able to progress easily towards his own liberation.
When the mysterious energies of Godly Grace are poured into our being, we discover that God never asks of us anything that we cannot accomplish. When the mysterious energies of Godly Grace are poured into his inner universe, the human being is transformed and becomes capable of living without the temptation to sin. The human being lives and exists constantly embraced by the unsuspected ocean of the mysterious energies of Godly Grace.
When he humbly asks for it with a strong, profound and complete faith, the energies of Godly Grace are poured into his being, and man thus discovers that through them he can always have at his disposal the inner strength he needs, which helps him to transform and to become Godly. Every human being should realize that he is in constant and absolute need of the efficacious help of Godly Grace, which makes possible a multitude of miracles in his inner universe.
When fully poured out upon the human being, the mysterious energies of Godly Grace give rise to a special power which opens the heart to the mysterious reality of God and at the same time impels the human being to aspire to and love God.
The outpouring of the mysterious energies of Godly Grace into the universe of the human being transforms his nature in a profound way and makes him feel that from the very beginning he was predestined to discover and deepen the indescribable state of communion with God, but he cannot fulfil this aspiration without the help of the mysterious energies of Godly Grace.
As the mysterious energies of Godly Grace pour more and more into him, man discovers that he does not in fact possess Godly Grace by himself, but always receives it from God in the form of mysterious energies. Through the experiences it generates in him, man has the revelation that Godly Grace is sanctifying (in Latin: Gratia Sanctificans).
And he discovers all this more and more joyfully, when the mysterious energies of Godly Grace become truly his inner nature. The profound integration of the human being by God depends to a very great extent on the interiorization and assimilation of the mysterious energies of Godly Grace. Man has to prepare himself to a certain extent in order to benefit unceasingly from the mysterious energies of Godly Grace.
It is infallible and always effective
The outpouring of the mysterious energies of Godly Grace transforms and regenerates the inner man in a profound way, and emphasizes that it is possible for God to covenant with all His creatures, a covenant which arises and becomes deeper and deeper precisely because of these supreme energies.
The energies of Godly Grace both awaken and shake the human being to the core, making him intuit and understand what his absolute priorities in daily life should be from now on. To achieve this, the human being should allow himself to be flooded by the energies of Godly Grace and, more than that, to cooperate in an exemplary way in order to benefit fully from them. Always, without exception, the mysterious energies of Godly Grace trigger complex, profoundly beneficial effects, both in the inner universe of the human being and in his or her essential inner nature. The mysterious energies of Godly Grace are always, without exception, infallibly effective.
When poured out into the universe of the human being, it is impossible that the mysterious energies of Godly Grace should fail to finally reach their mysterious goal. The profound spiritual transformation and the deification of every person remain incomplete without the help of the mysterious energies of Godly Grace, which are always necessary for the essential fulfilment of human nature. When the mysterious energies of Grace are poured within him, man discovers that these energies are immeasurable, and a natural desire is awakened to realize an ever more intense, profound and supernatural communion with God.
Bathed in the mysterious energies of Godly Grace, man discovers the endless ocean of these energies through which God reveals Himself, and reveals His supernatural reality. Godly Grace is, first of all, God Himself, who, full of solicitude, compassion and kindness, offers His love.
By virtue of His mysterious intentions and His universal Will, God predestined the human being to communicate and enter into states of profound communion with Him in order to know Him. It is essential to remember that the mysterious energies of Godly Grace always exist, they are oceanic, endless and offer themselves to the free choice of human beings.
The energies of Godly Grace are poured into the being only when man implores God, with humility and faith, that He will bestow upon him the precious gifts of His Grace.
It is therefore essential to remember that when the human being asks with humbleness and with unwavering and total faith, he benefits to the full from the mysterious energies of Godly Grace, which flood over him in waves as soon as he is ready.
Because of his sins and transgressions, man loses the possibility of benefiting from the mysterious energies of Godly Grace. However, even in such situations, when he realizes his sins and repents, regretting that he has committed them, man can benefit from the Godly merciful forgiveness, and through the saving help which the energies of Godly Grace offer, the sinner can return to the right path, turning with the help of the mysterious energies of Supreme Grace to God.
We have free will, it’s worth using it wisely
When drawn more and more into the universe of the human being, the mysterious energies of Godly Grace contribute greatly to the deification of the human being, transforming him in a profound way and at the same time establishing a new relationship between him and God. In this way, the human soul becomes the place of reunion and rediscovery of God. Most often, the mysterious energies of Godly Grace influence with great power, especially the hidden heart of the human being. Thanks to the mysterious energies of Godly Grace, man discovers a grandiose inner reality through which he will participate in the grandiose life of God.
More often than not, in an unsuspected way, the mysterious energies of Godly Grace produce within the human being perfect communion with the Kingdom of God. Whenever He manifests His absolute Grace, God is entirely free and sovereign. But it is essential to remember that the Grace of God is poured out into the universe of the human being in close connection with the merits he possesses. In other words, man’s qualities, as well as his purity and his sincere aspiration to benefit from the mysterious energies of Godly Grace can make him worthy of God’s love, and in this way he will easily enjoy their overflowing into his inner universe.
Both the sinners and those who do not believe in God are outside of any prior merit that would enable them to benefit from the outpouring of the mysterious energies of Godly Grace, as long as they indulge in this state and do not realize their departure from God or repent for the sins they have committed. The mysterious energies of Godly Grace can flow into the human being even when he is immersed in sin, as soon as he turns to God and sincerely, earnestly yearns to be helped, to be forgiven and to be given a possibility to be reconciled with God again. In the vision of the great saints, the outpouring of the mysterious energies of Godly Grace never destroys, but sustains and completes what needs to be transformed and purified in human nature.
When poured into the human being, the energies of Godly Grace act in a sovereign way, but never force him. Being created by God as a perfectly free being, permanently endowed with free-will, with the freedom to choose either good or evil as he wills, man is perfectly free to refuse Godly Grace, but when the human being refuses to ask for and receive the mysterious energies of Godly Grace, he loses himself and at the same time turns away from God.
It awakens in us steadfast love
In the game of the complex and indescribable interaction of Godly Grace and freedom, God and the human being are not two competing causalities. Always without exception, Godly Grace and its mysterious energies manifest themselves as an initiating force that makes possible that which is good, true and Godly and sustains the effort of ascent to God.
Always, without exception, the mysterious energies of Godly Grace establish a new communion with God. The mysterious energies of Godly Grace both heal and transform human relationships. Through the mysterious energies of Godly Grace, the human being is no longer drawn into sin, and in this way it becomes possible for him to be cleansed from sin. The experience of Godly Grace is always complex, mysterious and indescribable.
The outpouring of the mysterious energies of Godly Grace awakens in the inner universe of the human being Godly gifts, vocations and faculties that the Holy Spirit helps us to realize and assimilate. When the mysterious energies of Godly Grace are poured into the human being, the Holy Spirit mediates the appearance, growth and flourishing of the manifold Godly gifts and virtues. The Holy Spirit always has an important role to play when the mysterious energies of Godly Grace are poured into the human being.
The mysterious energies of Godly Grace are assimilated in various ways by human beings and, in close connection with the inner transformation and opening of the human being in question, they generate in his inner universe some distinct effects, such as: the broad and profound purification of the being from all that is nefarious, impure, perverse and harmful; the forgiveness of sins, which entails their annihilation, their disappearance forever; the profound inner transformation, which is accompanied by a sui generis process of salvation; psychic and soul regeneration or, in other words, the appearance of an ineffable state of rebirth; a lucid and striking awareness of the passions, of harmful attachments, which is accompanied by the elimination of the temptation to sin again, and sometimes leads to repentance for certain sins previously committed; awakening and amplification of love for God.
The outpouring of the mysterious energies of Godly Grace upon the human being causes a strong and steadfast love of God to appear in man. In addition, the mysterious energies of Godly Grace awaken and at the same time increase the state of goodwill, compassion, mercy and kindness.
yogaesoteric
July 3, 2025
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