"Aaspathreelu, doctorlu, mandulu... emi akkara ledu”
hospitals, doctors, medicines... no need for any of them. "Oka naadu,
Nenu, tak tak tak! anni sari chesthanu." One day, tak, tak, tak. Like
that, I shall set right everything.” Baba told me thus, snapping His
fingers to produce the sound, tak... tak... tak, when He spoke.
I was
overwhelmed with joy and thankfulness; for, just imagine what He was
promising to set right.
My wife was suffering since three years from
acute osteomalacia, with pathological fractures of the pelvic bones. The
doctors were sure about that; many experts had examined the patient
with great care. They had told me that prolonged stay in bed and
persistent treatment might be able to give some relief. They told me it
was due to the absorption of the osseous substance of the bones, which
causes, as in my wife's case, softening and rarefaction, followed by
spontaneous fracture.
She was emaciated and exhausted, the pelvic bones
were affected much, becoming irradiated and weak. The spine was
paining badly and the doctors said, she will be bed-ridden for years
and her limbs will become shortened and useless. Opiates and drugs to
dull the pain were the only medicines that could be given, besides
various costly experimental palliatives.
What a terrible life for a poor middle class
family with five children and the breadwinner holding a Government job,
requiring frequent long journeys! I was hit very hard by this calamity.
No one held out the slightest hope.
Baba was my only refuge, some good
friend said. I came to Puttaparthi. I was called in by Baba and this
was what He said! Now, you know why she was so full of joy and
thankfulness.
Well, I returned home to Besagarahalli, in
Mandya District. Three months passed and there was no improvement in her
physical condition; in fact, she became worse; my faith in Baba began
wavering. My home was a cell of pain and grief. Without regular food
and sleep, racked by pain and worry, my wife became a shadow of her
former self. Baba's words were her only solace. She and I held on to
them, in spite of all the whisperings of despair.
I awoke one morning rather early, because I had
to leave for a distant village on Government work. I was surprised to
find a lamp burning in the kitchen. When I asked, “Who is there?" it
was my wife who replied. Yes; she had lit the fire and... would you
believe it? She was preparing coffee for me!!
She said, she had a dream; or, was it a dream?
Baba had come to her bedside and ordered her to get up, come down from
the cot and do Namaskaram to Him! And, she had obeyed! While she was at
His Feet, Baba, with many a consoling word, patted gently on the
diseased joints... she could hear the sound the bones made inside
her... Tak, Tak, Tak! She had become quite alright. "Anni sari
chesthanu", He had said. He had kept His Word! When she looked up,
after a while, with tears of gratitude in her eyes, the Lord had
disappeared. To the great amazement of all of us, and the doctors who
had shaken their heads whenever her recovery was mentioned, she has
started from that very day her daily routine of work, as if nothing at
all had happened to her.
The bone specialist who had studied the X-ray
photographs of my wife was informed of this miraculous overnight cure.
He declared, “During my five years of stay abroad, I could not see a
single case of osteomalacia cured, among the several which I treated.
It is beyond the ken of a human physician. God has blessed you!”
Nothing is impossible for Baba. What He says happens.
(Source: Sai Spiritual Showers)