Re: Hanicap Options
Namaste,
My personal interpretationof chanting, different ritual is: most of the time, our senses are running after objects of materialistic word, the point of worship, puja, meditation, chanting is to focus our sense organs and mind in supreme/brahman and take it away from sense objects. So, for disabled people, it means whichever sense organs are working fine, can be focused on supreme.
In practical terms, people who are deaf from birth are taught to speak by speech thrapy, by vibration of throat, lip reading. The mantra can be taught in the same way. Blind people can be taught of swastik and aum by brail and by touching an engraved or protuding symbol.
A Guru will definitely make required amendments to the prescribed samaskar in these cases. And if nothing of this is possible, God will not fail to realize the devotion in the heart of his disabled devotee.
Then question comes, if 'devotion in heart' is all that what matters, why should be bother about regulations in normal cases as well? Well, I have read there are 2 types of devotion: 'Vidhi Bhakti' and 'Anurag Bhakti' i.e. 'Ritualistic devotion' and 'Loving devotion'. The moment we start feeling intense love for supreme like Sri Ramakrishna paramhamsa, rituals and regulations are not needed. But, at the level where most of us are, entrapped by sense objects, we should try to follow regulatios/samskar as much as possible so that laziness and bad habits don't enter in us.
Regards,
reflections
Thy right is to work only, but never with its fruits; let not the fruits of the action be thy motive, nor let thy attachment be to inaction.
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