Once a person brought
his only son, who was suffering from double Pneumonia,
to the feet of the Master and sought his help, as he
was too poor for meeting the expenditure on his treatment
and that Doctors also had told him that his child would
not survive. Master asked him to recite the Name of
the Lord and touched the child, which cured him, but
brought the disease upon the Master. The child went
home cured by the miraculous feat of the Master, but
the Master was left lying in the bed for two weeks with
double Pneumonia.
In another incident, a panel of eminent Doctors, who
were either his disciples or admirers and who were regularly
examining him, discovered in an X-ray, that the Master
had large patches of T.B. in both the lungs. They had
examined him two months earlier and had found that the
lungs were clear. They could not understand as to how
this disease could attack the Master so extensively,
within two months. In their natural anxiety they advised
him to take complete rest and prescribed appropriate
drugs, to which the Master said:
"Can this treatment be postponed by one week?
During this week, I shall try to clear it myself by
meditation. If in a week's time, you find that the disease
still persists, you can start your treatment".
The Doctors agreed, but they were certain that no amount
of meditation could cure T.B. A week later, the X-Ray
showed that both the lungs were clear to the astonishment
of these eminent physicians. All that they could say
was that he was beyond their comprehension.
It was obvious that the Master had absorbed the disease
of a disciple and he had cleared it by meditation.
In yet another incident, one of his disciples narrated
that his wife was chronically ill and bed ridden for
years, during which time, medical treatment had failed
to help her and that she was on the brink of death.
In a desperate effort, he went to the local village
temple to pray. On the way he was intently thinking
of the Master, perhaps for the first time, as all his
efforts had failed. On reaching the temple he found
that it was locked and that the priest was no where
to be found. When he was helplessly crying at the temple
door, someone touched him and when he opened his eyes,
he saw the Master standing close by. The Master asked
his disciple to take him to his house in the village.
The disciple was extremely grateful to his Master for
arriving in the nick of time to save his wife and led
him to his village. On the way, there was a big lake
and the disciple walked straight into the water and
would have been drowned, had he not been saved by some
villagers, who saw him walking into the lake so recklessly.
He talked of his Master who was following him, but nobody
could see him. His story of leading the Master to his
village through the lake made others think that he had
gone made. Everybody sympathized with him because of
his wife's sickness and his own poverty and assumed
that his distress had caused mental imbalance in him
and took him to his residence. They were also amazed
to find his wife standing outside the house, while a
few minutes earlier she was unable to move from her
bed. She was looking for a Sadhu, who, she said, had
come into their house asking for alms, which she had
given after getting up from her bed with great difficulty.
Immediately afterwards, the Sadhu had left. She had
never met him earlier, but her description of Sadhu
was exactly like that of Master. But where had he gone?
Having met both husband and the wife separately, the
proof of his physical presence was unmistakable. As
an irrefutable proof, the ailing woman had left her
bed and appeared fully recovered. All of them were wondering
about the powers of his Master, who was perhaps hundreds
of miles away from them at that time.
In yet another case, a retired I.G. of Police has confirmed
that he was suffering from Hernia for seven years and
one day when the Master jokingly caught hold of his
hand and gave a sudden jerk, his Hernia disappeared.
One of the most amazing incidents relates to the illness
and death of Sri Padmalochan Mukherjee in the Medical
College Hospital in Calcutta. Mrs. Mukherjee sent a
wire to the Master, who was then at Benaras, asking
him to go and see her husband in the hospital. The Master
then went by air to Calcutta, but on going straight
from the airport to the hospital, he was informed by
the Matron that Mr. Mukherjee had died sometime back.
The Master went to the bed of Mr. Padmalochan Mukherjee
and sat silently with his hand on the dead man's chest.
After sometime, the pulse and the heart beat returned.
Padmalochan opened his eyes and said:
"Baba, I was being taken away when you arrived
and stopped them. I thought it was only a dream, but
when I opened my eyes I saw you sitting on my bed, Strange
!".
All his relatives saw this miracle and the Matron tore
up the death certificate and said:
"Baba is Christ reborn".
The principal of the College Dr. Sarvadhikary and some
of the Professors of Medical College, became his disciples.
In yet another incident, three people came to see the
Master at Howrah in a highly disturbed state of mind,
and told him that while they were coming to him, they
were chanting the Name of the Lord. On the way, they
were attacked by several miscreants and they were beaten
up. The Master enquired as to which parts of their bodies
were affected by the beating. They showed their backs,
but there were no marks of injury. Then he exposed his
back and there were several severe lessions. It was
therefore evident that he had taken the blows on himself
and protected his devotees, who were chanting the Lord's
Name while coming to him. The place where they were
attacked, was three to four miles away from the Master's
place of stay and he had not left the place. |