"You will be my doctor"

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Calcutta, India — Monday, July 26th

 

"You will be my doctor"

 

Here is a nugget from Srila Gurudeva's (Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda

Maharaja) http://www.scsmath.com recently published Affectionate

Guidance treasury, excerpted and abridged, from Chapter 11, "Emotion

or Devotion?" — originally published in Counterpoint, the London

newsletter edited and printed by Devashis Prabhu:

 

....In 1973 Srila Guru Maharaj was so ill that all the doctors said

that it was beyond their capacity to treat him, and were sure that

within a few days, or a week at the most, he would leave his body.

 

One day I was crying while taking my bath and I cried out to Lord

Shiva: "O Lord Shiva, you are the Master of Medicine, so please, my

Lord, give me some medicine for my Guru Maharaj."

 

After my desperate prayer, I heard the name of a medicine, as if from

the air. At first I thought I had mistaken the sound of the name of

the medicine for the sound of the water coming from the shower, so I

again prayed: "Please let me hear that name once more so that I may be

sure." And again the sound of the name of that medicine came.

 

After hearing the name of the medicine from Lord Shiva, I felt very

free in my mind, and I knew that Guru Maharaj would not leave us now.

In the meantime, Hari Charan Prabhu called me urgently on the

telephone: "Srila Guru Maharaj is sinking fast! He has no pulse, only

a slight heartbeat, and no blood pressure."

 

I assured him: "Prabhu, don't worry. Lord Shiva has just now given me

a medicine; give this to Guru Maharaj and he will be cured. I am

coming right away."

 

I took the last train to Calcutta, and I arrived at the Math late, at

about midnight. When I arrived, I saw Guru Maharaj sitting in his

chair, taking prasadam with his own hand.

 

I asked Guru Maharaj, "What happened? Hari Charan Prabhu told me you

were sinking!"

 

Srila Guru Maharaj replied: "Yes, I was, but Hari Charan gave me the

medicine that you told him to, and now you see the result."

 

Soon Guru Maharaj's pulse returned and his blood pressure became

normal, and he said: "From this day on, you will be my doctor!" And

all Guru Maharaj's doctors consented...