Namaste,
I was thinking about this the other day.
If a person is disabled, and unfortunately, many are, are they closer to mokSA?
The reason I ask this is because we know that the IndriyAs (senses) are our way of experiencing the world, so to speak. So, in other words, the senses are the instruments through which our consciousness constantly flows outward.
If one of the senses is missing or damaged, like sight, for example, this would impede the external flow of consciousness would it not? And, so, one can be said to be closer to home or "aham"(?).
We are aware of the 10 senses plus the mind:
5- karmendriyas--senses of action
5 - jnanendriyas--senses of cognition/knowledge
1 - manas--mind
I was also told that for example, if you look at Stephen Hawking, a world-renowned physicist, he is severely disabled with Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), but his mind is of (apparently) keen intellect. Could it be that because his life energy, prana, was not flowing outwards due to his disability, it was focused more on one, the mind?
It is interesting to note that dogs are colorblind but have an incredible sense of smell/hearing and I always used to wonder if it was like a money-market account where say you have $100k and you can invest it in 10 different financial instruments. Suddenly, one instrument is expired or unavailable, so you invest the funds into another instrument making it much "stronger" so to speak.
Please keep in mind, pun intended (LOL), these are just speculations and so I wanted to discuss it.
Namaskar.
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