Love Makes the Impossible Possible
Narada teaches that devotion accomplishes what no human effort can, for it draws upon the infinite grace of the beloved.
What austerity, learning, and effort cannot achieve, love achieves easily, because love opens the heart to grace, and grace knows no limits. The traditions tell of devotees lifted across every obstacle by love alone — the ferocious made gentle, the doomed redeemed, the impossible accomplished, not by their power but by the Lord's response to their love. Narada's confidence rests not in the devotee's capacity but in the beloved's boundless generosity toward the loving heart. This frees the aspirant from despair over personal limitation, for the path of love does not depend on being strong but on being sincere. The glory of devotion is that it enlists infinite power on behalf of the finite soul. The smallest love opens the door to the greatest grace.
By love alone is He attained, whom no austerity, study, or effort can reach.
The conviction that grace accomplishes what effort cannot is a recurring axis of mystical religion, paralleling the Christian theology of grace and the Pure Land Buddhist reliance on 'other-power' rather than 'self-power.'
Narada Bhakti Sutras