Contact with The Mother

GRACE FOR DIAGNOSIS

During 1953, the year when I came to the Ashram for the first time, my wife was seriously suffering from a malady whose right diagnosis could not be made. She was X-rayed and treated by a doctor who said that she was suffering from rheumatism. But there was no improvement in her condition.

We got her examined by another more qualified medical practitioner who found in the X-ray plate signs of bone T.B. He started treating my wife. He was paid every day from 20 to 30 rupees—an amount beyond my capacity. The treatment continued for two months during which time the patient was strictly prohibited from moving. My resources were exhausted, yet there were no visible signs of cure. My wife, pinned to her bed, felt unable to bear suffering any more.

I wrote to the Mother through a friend of mine. I was sent her blessings. Now I started depending entirely on the Mother’s Grace, yet putting in the right effort. When the malady did not lessen after the doctor’s treatment for two months, I again wrote to the Mother and got her blessings.

A Gurubhai advised me to establish inner contact with the Mother so that I might receive her help more easily and more tangibly.

Dropping the treatment by this doctor, I went to another still more qualified doctor who said that if the disease was bone T.B., the patient needed to be kept plastered for 6 months. She was to be X-rayed and examined again and kept in the hospital for 7 days for this purpose. We agreed. After a thorough examination, it was found that the disease was not bone T.B. It was rheumatism. The treatment was given for this so that not only were we saved from the exhorbitant expenditure on treatment of bone T.B., but also the patient was spared her bed-pinned plight. The treatment was continued for six months. Now the patient is cured, except that she is weak.

I feel sure that the Mother’s blessings put the whole case on the right track so that the just remedy was given, with the resultant cure.