Yoga of Perfect Sight

A Case of Presbyopia

It is a general belief that presbyopia or old age sight is a normal result of growing old, so at the age of forty-two when I experienced difficulty in reading, the natural impulse in me was to consult an eye specialist and get glasses. Since then I have been using glasses and at the age of sixty-four the number of my glasses was plus 3.5. Though I knew Dr. Agarwal very well, it never occurred to me that I could do away with glasses. I had taken the doctor's advice as a verdict that nothing else could replace glasses.

For sometime I was feeling heaviness or headache or strain in the eyes specially after reading and a sort of veil appeared before the eyes which made the vision defective. This trouble acted as a source of inspiration to consult our friend Dr. Agarwal whose wonderful cures we sometimes read of in Mother India.

About a week back one morning I happened to be in his eye clinic at the School for Perfect Eyesight. My glasses and vision were checked.

"Would you like to discard your glasses and get new vision?" he asked.

"It will be a blessing, but will it really be possible to discard glasses at this age?" I counter questioned.

"Leave these glasses with me for a week and undergo a short course of eye education and see the result," he advised.

Very gladly I consented to his advice and started the treatment. To my surprise the vision began to improve from the first sitting, and in a week's treatment I was able to read very small print easily. Now my near vision is as good as my distant vision. Dr. Agarwal has assured me that there will be no cataract or any other trouble if I could devote a few minutes daily to eye exercise. Though I keep a low number pair of glasses in my pocket, I hardly use them.

The process of treatment that I followed was first to apply Resolvent 200 and face the morning sun for a few minutes with the eyes closed, then after washing the eyes with eye lotion I practised palming. When I closed the eyes and covered them with my palms I could see that it was all perfect dark before my eyes like black velvet. Then I looked at the candle flame while counting one hundred respirations.

The next process was to shift the sight in between the lines of small print with gentle blinking and at frequent intervals I read the Snellen chart placed in dim light at fifteen feet distance. This process enabled me little by little to read the small print. And when I could read the small print, the ordinary book print automatically became easy and legible. It was a surprise to me when the small print could be read easily. Then Dr. Agarwal explained everything.

A letter or a word is a combination of black and white. When you look at the white instead of concentrating on the black the eye muscles are relaxed and the eye is able to accommodate in a normal way. If people arriving at forty years of age adopt this simple process of reading some small print daily in good light as well as in candlelight, they will be able to maintain good eyesight throughout their life and they will be saved from cataract and glaucoma and other eye troubles of old age. According to the view of Dr. Agarwal presbyopia is the result of strain, hence preventable and curable.

How is it fine print becomes clear after looking at some distant object? Answering this question Dr. Agarwal said that the strain at the distant object elongates the eyeball so as to accommodate while reading. Such a practice is useful when one uses plus glasses.

An Inmate of the Ashram