Sri Sadguru Mahime

Author: Charana Dasa

Translator: Shri.Ganesh Prasad

Chapter 49:  Rehabilitation of addicts

'It was during 1994, a couple had come from Chickmaglur to seek Gurunatha’s blessings. Gurunatha had given them coconuts and asked them to keep it with them. Green buds came out from those coconuts after about three months since the day Gurunatha left this world. I have witnessed this incident personally.

“When you have Guru’s blessings you can win over death also”. Gurunatha’s wife had a relative who used to visit their house frequently. He was working in Bangalore and was a chain smoker. These habits along with work pressure led to heart attack. Coming to know of this Gurunatha asked his family to immediately admit him to the hospital and ensured that he recovered in a short span of time. After some medical help and many remedies suggested by Gurunatha he is living a happy life and is smoking again too!

“Ways to prevent Gambling addiction”

A person from a rich family in an adjoining district used to come to Gurunatha’s house even before I stayed there. The person showed off too much and was addicted to horse racing. These two were his weaknesses. He used come to Gurunatha and ask “Sir which numbered horse will win today?”. Gurunatha would give him a number and that horse would go on to win. This went on for some time. One day Gurunatha asked him to bring few small stones, touched them and asked that person to keep those stones in his pockets. He said “take out some stones from your pocket, whatever the number of stones you get, you can bet on that”. He used to do that and win, later on he slowly stopped gambling and led a good family life.

Gurunatha who could have opposed his addictions at the start itself, let him indulge and overcome his addictions and lead a normal life. Is this not a real rehabilitation?

In another instance, a resident of Sakharaya Patna wanted to buy a tractor to make a living. He came to Gurunatha and sought his blessings. Gurunatha blessed him, he bought the tractor and his life improved. He wanted to buy another tractor and came to Gurunatha again. This time Gurunatha advised him against that. Gurunatha told him “be content with this one, the new tractor will take a life and will send you to prison”.

Being greedy that person ignored Gurunatha’s words and bought another tractor. Within a few days there was an accident involving that tractor and one person was killed. As a result of the incident the owner of the tractor was imprisoned. He suffered financially also; dejected he had consumed poison and was admitted to the hospital. Doctors treating him had said, considering the amount of poison he has taken chances of survival are very less. On hearing the news Gurunatha got about fifty lemons and had their juice all at one go. After this, that person in the hospital recovered miraculously. Today he is leading a happy family life.

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