By the self effort you gain power and through Knowledge you attain immortality. So, there are three things essentially, your self effort with the grace of Master.
Chapter 5 -
*Day 23*
When you sit with the Master, listen and learn, you understand something deeper because you get in touch with that inner aspect of yours that is immortal.
With your self effort you gain the power and with the help Master you get in touch with Knowledge. The Master cannot make you powerful.
He gives you a glimpse, that seed, that is essential for illustration, but by your self effort and your attention on it, you grow into that power.
By the self effort you gain power and through Knowledge you attain immortality. So, there are three things essentially, your self effort with the grace of Master.
These two things together may bring the Knowledge in you and that Knowledge brings you immortality.
You can't say "Gurudev you do it all, I don't meditate, don't do Sudarshan Kriya or do anything. You do everything for me. Give me instant blessings".
No doubt Gurudev gives blessings but how grateful are you. If your mind still is in complaining mood-finding fault in everybody, saying everything is bad-in that ungrateful mood, any amount of blessings is like holding water in a strainer.
You pour water in the strainer open the tap fully and strainer doesn't hold anything. There are too many holes in it. With your effort you have to block the holes there, put a foil if there are too many hole.