Moments Memories and Miracles - From Radio Sai Journal

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Moments Memories and Miracles

 

 

 

TAK... TAK... TAK“Aaspathrulu, doctorlu, mandulu… emi akkara

ledu”. Hospitals, doctors medicines… no need for any of them.

“Oka naadu, nenu, tak tak tak! Anni sari chesthanu.” One day, tak,

tak, tak. Like that, I shall set right everthing !

Baba told me thus, snapping his fingers to produce the soung, tak…

tak… tak, when He spoke. I was overwhelmed with joy and thankfulness;

for, just imagine what He was promising to set right: My wife was suffering

since three years from acute osteomalacia, with pathological fractures of the

pelvic bones. The doctors were sure about that; many experts had examined the

patient with great care. They had told me that prolonged stay in bed and

persistent treatment might be able to give some relief. They told me it was due

to the absorption of the osseous substance of the bones, which causes, as in my

wife’s case, softening and rarefaction, followed by spontaneous fracture.

She was emaciated and exhausted, the pelvic bones were affected much, becoming

weak. The spine was paining badly and the doctors said, she will be bed-ridden

for years and her limbs will become shortened and useless. Opiates and drugs to

dull the pain were the only medicine that could be given, besides various costly

experimental palliatives.

What a terrible life for a poor middle class family with five children and the

breadwinner holding a Government job, requiring long journeys frequently! I was

hit very hard by the calamity. No one held out the slightest hope. Baba was my

refuge, some good friend said. I came to Puttaparthi. I was called by Baba and

this was what He said! Now, you know why I was so full of joy and thankfulness.

Well, I returned home to Besagarahalli, in Mandya District. Three months passed

and there was no improvement in her physical condition. In fact, she became

worse; my faith in Baba began wavering. My home was a cell of pain and grief.

Without regular food and sleep, racked by pain and worry, my wife became a

shadow of her former self. Baba’s words were her only solace. She and I

held on to them, in spite of the despair.

I awoke one morning rather early, because I had to leave for a distant village

on Government work. I was surprised to find a lamp burning in the kitchen. When

I asked, “Who is there?” it was my wife who replied. Yes ! she had

lit the fire and… would you believe it? She was preparing coffee for me!!

She said, she had a dream; or, was it a dream? Baba had come to her bedside and

ordered her to get up, come down from the cot and do Namaskaram to Him! And,

she had obeyed! While she was at His Feet, Baba with many a consoling word,

patted gently on the diseased joints… she could hear the sound the bones

made inside her… Tak,Tak,Tak! She had become quite right. “Anni

sari Chesthanu. I will make everything alright”, He had said. He had kept

His Word! When she looked up, after a while, with tears of gratitude in her

eyes, the Lord had disappeared. To the great amazement of all of us, and the

doctors who had shaken their heads whenever her recovery was mentioned, she has

started from that very day her daily routine of work, as if nothing at all had

happened to her.

The bone specialist who had studied the X-ray photographs of my wife was

informed of this miraculous overnight cure. He declared, “During my five

years stay abroad, I could not see a single case of osteomalacia cured, among

the several which I treated. It is beyond the ken of a human physician. God has

blessed you”! Nothing is impossible for Baba. What He says, happens.N.S.

Raghavan.(from the Sanathana Sarathi)

 

 

Volume - 2 Issue - 15

Radiosai Journal - PSN 2004

 

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