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with our vision and demand it at the time of meditation, is I think too much of a request. A prayer that is not likely to be answered. Just as when we start our meditation we want balanced living we are asking for our freedom, freedom from the skews and angularities, freedom from the distortions contortions. That is what we are asking for and then why should we try to give that contortion back to him.
We have got more grace coming from him because naturally a disabled child is loved more by the mother than the able bodied one. Perverse logics are available, but none of them are balanced, because every one of us is disabled. Here disable referred to is the lack of ability to function. But many of us are disabled to think. Not mentally retarded, there are other reasons for that. Namely our pride prejudice, and arrogance. These three things come to us as basic barriers in sadhana. Some trees are long, some other trees are short but there is no comparison between them. They don't compare. Each one is happy to what he is. But then pride comes when we compare. Comparison leads to pride. While God has given all of
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