[Advaita-l] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Doesn't a mentally challenged person deserve Moksha in this lifetime ?

[Akilesh Ayyar]

Namaste,

I'll just make one point in response: the so-called mentally challenged can
also obtain moksha, depending on their prior karma. The famous story of
Jada Bharata from Srimad Bhagavatam illustrates. Swami Vivekananda's
retelling of this story is at:
https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_4/lectures_and_discourses/the_story_of_jada_bharata.htm
.

Jada Bharata was a sage who became attached to a deer, and so was reborn as
a deer, and then after that reborn as a son in a rich Brahmin family. "And
in that life also, he remembered all his past, and even in his childhood
was determined no more to get entangled in the good and evil of life. The
child, as it grew up, was strong and healthy, but would not speak a word,
and lived as one inert and insane, for fear of getting mixed up with
worldly affairs. His thoughts were always on the Infinite, and he lived
only to wear out his past Prârabdha Karma..."

Hari Om,
Akilesh





On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 2:46 PM Mahadevan Iyer via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Pranams Atman,
>
> Doesn'ta mentallychallenged person deserve Moksha in this lifetime ?
> In such cases, can bhakthi be analternative to Brahmajnanam ?
> Does the biggest of the bhaktas have to be born again for attaining
> Brahma-Jnana ?
>
> If not, this implies, some people, by birth, have no scope for Moksha in
> their lifetime. This further implies that, there is no free will.
>
> What kind of previous janma karma makes a person take a birth with no
> scope for Moksha ?
>
> OM TAT SAT.
>
> Mahadevan Iyer
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