Sri Sadguru Mahime

Author: Charana Dasa

Translator: Shri.Ganesh Prasad

Chapter 96 : Life and after life

Once you call someone a Guru, your responsibilities for this life and the one to follow rest with him. Walking on the path shown by the Guru with your eyes closed is what is expected of the disciple.

A family lived in a town about 5 hour drive from Guru’s residence. The family had assets and was doing well. They used to frequently visit Gurunatha’s residence and followed Gurunatha’s words to a tee.

Their son probably of about 10 years started complaining of stomach ache. Initially the parents did not take it very seriously. But, once the symptoms started getting worse the parents admitted him to a local hospital.

Many tests were conducted. By night the boy’s condition worsened with vomit and blood in excretion. The doctor advised the parents that he should be shifted to a bigger hospital in a city. In that hospital he was kept in ICU and the doctor who attended to him suspected the boy was suffering from dengue fever and told the par-

ents about a survival chance of only 50%. Parents signed the consent letter praying to Gurunatha through their thoughts. After completing those formalities the couple came straight to Gurunatha’s residence. Already in tears the couple bowed to Gurunatha and asked for their son to be saved. A few minutes later Gurunatha assured them that there was no danger to the boy’s life. He gave one small thing to be kept where the boy was sleeping when at home. The couple did as instructed and rushed back to the hospital.

The boy who was on artificial respiration for weeks lost his memory and sense of touch. Slowly all body movements ceased including eyelids. With a firm belief in Gurunatha the parents started caring for the boy, whatever little they could. After about 21 days in the ICU the doctors said that nothing much can be done and the boy be taken home.

The boy was brought home and as Gurunatha had instructed recital of Rudra prashna, Aruna prashna, Sukthas and Paduka puja were performed.

Gurunatha sitting at his residence explained various pujas that were being performed there to me and also said, though it seemed everyone were involved in those rituals; actually it was him who was performing each of those rituals. I did not understand his cryptic words, I nodded. After about ten days of puja/rituals at his home the boy’s eyelids slowly started moving. The following week the boy was able to control his eye movements and recognized a few of his family members. He was being administered food nasally.

A few days later, Gurunatha asked the boy to be brought to his residence. It was a Thursday when the boy was brought to Gurunatha’s residence. He was made to lie down next to Gurunatha according to his instructions. Gurunatha called his mother and he wanted some details from her. He said “ See, while doctors treat patients on the current symptoms they show, I try to understand what might have caused the problem, and then the treatment begins”. With these words Gurunatha got a few details from the mother about the events during this child’s birth.

A few minutes later he said “The boy has been granted a life of about 30 years”

A few hours later Gurunatha asked his wife to feed the boy. The boy’s parents were thinking how is it possible for the boy to have solid food like normal people when he was still being fed through pipes. Gurunatha stared at the boy for some time and then asked his wife to serve food to everyone including the boy. The boy who did not have the sense of touch till then opened his mouth on his own and ate small amount of cooked rice mixed with milk. Parents were very happy to see their son eat solid food for the first time after several months. Boy’s mother however was still crying, she went to Gurunatha and complained that the boy recognizes everyone except her and she was anxious to hear the words ‘Amma’(mother) from him. Gurunatha told her to be patient and reassured her, he will call her to her heart’s content.

After about a year after recovery, thanks to Gurunatha’s grace the boy now is active like he was before, doing his education and as Gurunatha had assured his mother keeps calling her “Amma,Amma..”.

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