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How would a blind and deaf person achieve salvation?

People say to attain salvation we need to believe in God. To believe in God we need to read scriptures or atleast hear it.
If both are not possible how will a naturally blind and deaf person achieve salvation?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Believing in God is not the same as believing in scriptures and litany. Those only tell us ways to conceive and worship God.

Someone unable to read or hear liturgical works can still believe in God, and pray in his or her own way.
Amish · 22-25, M
@ArishMell But the teaching of true God mandates people to read those scriptures considered as God's word to know more about him and attain salvation.
[quote]Someone unable to read or hear liturgical works can still believe in God, and pray in his or her own way.[/quote].
How? Without reading or hearing how will they know about the one and only one true God ?
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Amish I can understand that for any faith (Christianity is not the only fruit) you do need read its texts to understand its definition of its deity, or have them read to you. For someone blind and deaf that would obviously as physically difficult as it would be for him or her to understand anything else; but it would depend on what communication the individual does have with others.

I used to know a lady who was a professional carer for very severely disabled adults, and she told it can be possible to communicate with someone profoundly both blind and deaf, as one of her clients was. To what extent though, is another matter; but they are helped by aids like Braille provided it is possible for them to learn it.

It may be that the sacred texts, written anyway by people not gods, do become less important than the concept of a creative and caring god, over and above any liturgy. Books like those define the deity and guide worshipping it, but it is the deity who matters.

What worries me more, and I think this is what you worries you, is the idea that being unable to read or listen to a religious text bars the person from that religion's deity, hence basically just writes them off.
Amish · 22-25, M
@ArishMell [quote]What worries me more, and I think this is what you worries you, is the idea that being unable to read or listen to a religious text bars the person from that religion's deity, hence basically just writes them off.[/quote] Not all the religions. There are religions that respects people's freedom of belief and choice of God. They focus on good deeds of the person within their circumstances and never attach consequences for not believing in any particular God.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Amish A fair point. That seems an ideal way to be spiritual.