Yes I believe grace is important as well. Devotion is our reaching to the Divine Ideal, and grace is the energy of that Ideal flowing back to us. I believe I have received energy transmissions from two great souls. One was from Amma (Her love is infinite and always transmitting to everyone) the other was from a meditation teacher who initiated me into a form of meditation.

In both these cases, the divine energy came and affected my being. Any genuine Guru or advanced soul can transmit that energy. In Christianity, Christ and the Holy Spirit transmit their grace to us. That has been very important to me in my own life as well.