Yoga of Perfect Sight

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My daughter Kavita is about 8 years old. I think it was her fifth birthday party, when she appeared before her tiny friends in a very serious mood, wearing an elderly look. She had not put on her grandma's specs, they were her own. How funny! How silly! And they were designed to be her life-long companion. No medical practitioner, no eye specialist grants divorce with spectacles, once you get along with them. There is only one person, an old inmate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, who recommends such divorces. I shall tell you the story of my daughter.

At a young age, specially when she started her K.G., she had complained several times of headache. Further, she was getting a cold and cough. every two months. We took her first to an E.N.T. (Ear, Nose, Throat) specialist. He found nothing wrong. We were also in touch with the dentist. He had also nothing to say. Then we went to a well-known eye specialist of our Bangalore city. My daughter could hardly read the test chart half-way. The child of 5 was then taken to a dark room. The doctor went on saying, "See here, see there, see over my head, etc." Next day he tried several glasses, asking her, "This better or that'? Now which is better?" and so on. The doctor managed to prescribe compound glasses with the following power:

R.E. -1.5 sph. +3.0 cyl. Axis 90

L.E. -0.5 sph. +2.5 cyl. Axis 90

We were puzzled to see the numbers where one axis is plus, the other minus. The doctor said that the eyes were very weak, and she could never think of getting rid of glasses. He asked us to go to him every year for a check-up.

So in October 1966, the doctor again examined my daughter's eyes and prescribed higher power glasses:

R.E. -2.0 sph. +4.0 cyl. Axis 90

L.E. -1.0 sph. +3.5 cyl. Axis 90

Then one fine day we went to Pondicherry in connection with the school of Sri Aurobindo Ashram. We also took the opportunity to meet Dr. R.S. Agarwal, of whom we had heard sometime back. He examined my daughter's eyes very carefully and said her eyesight could become normal. He was confident in his words. Further, his elderly disposition and loving tone gave us full hope. He asked us to come one month in advance before the school opened in Pondicherry.

And thus we again came to Pondicherry about 3 weeks before the school reopened. We went to Dr. Agarwal. He advised us to bring a set of colour pencils, one ruled note book, one blank note book, one dot pen, one pencil. Wonderful prescription! My daughter loved to have all that. Then daily in the morning we went to the doctor. My daughter could easily spend one and a half hour in his eye clinic. She was given a ball to play with. But all these were exercises for eyes. Playing with a ball gave her the correct way of blinking; like that all other things were important. Further, daily she was going to a darkroom, but with a candle burning. She was asked to read a small book with fine print in it. This too was interesting. The doctor used to make a group of 4-5 children and give them different games of eyesight to play in sequence. Every morning was a delightful morning.

Now I shall tell you the results. On the first day when we went to Dr. Agarwal, she was not able to read the last four lines on his chart from a particular distance without or with glasses. After 15 days of treatment she was able to read 3 further lines on his chart. What a wonderful result! Is it not like magic? My daughter was so happy when she learnt that no more spectacles would be needed in her whole life. And all these results were achieved in 15 days! Even when we go to a surgeon for any operation, he will take more than 15 days. And here her eyes were cured with a set of colour pencils, a note book and a candle!

K. C. Ananda