Interesting answer from Amma.
I believe that God sees this life as a drop of water in a pail. We have lived countless lives and done many things. The efforts of one life may seem meaningless unless a soul is placed under the temptations and the satisfaction of desires of many lives.
Since you and I have a guru mccoy I feel it important that we ask protection against the Maya that surrounds us. We are asking to be liberated but at the same time we have desires that keep us in mortal consciousness. This meditation must become as natural and needed as sleep itself. There is really no other way out. Most people are hopelessly lost in a fantasy land.... caught in a play of weaving dreams. We are looking for the way out of this labyrinth. We have found one another to compare notes on our struggle to get out without being trapped for countless more incarnations.