You might say that the Karma of the previous birth has to be consumed in this birth and that no amount of grace can save man from that. Evidently, some one has taught you to believe so. But I assure you, you need not suffer from Karma like that. When a severe pain torments you, the doctor gives you a morphine injection and you do not feel the pain though it is there in the body. Grace is like the morphine, the pain is not felt though you go through it! Grace takes away the malignity of the Karma which you have to undergo.
(Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol IV, pg 225)
