In
the last week of March 1972 Kehar Singh ji came down with the flu.
Then, in the beginning of April, he suffered from diarrhea. He was
unable to retain even a drop of water and became emaciated by the long
illness. Doctors thought of giving him glucose and a blood transfusion
since his condition had become so serious that he was not able to move
at all. One night he said to himself in distress, I shall
pass the days in misery. This life will be a hell for me.
In utter helplessness he thought of Maharaj. He prayed to him either to
make him fit to live or to let him die. That night while the whole
world slept, Baba heard Kehar Singh ji's silent prayer.
At
Vridavan ashram, two hundred and seventy-five kilometers away, Baba at
once took the disease upon himself. He suffered a severe attack of
diarrhea. His clothes were soiled and cleaned again and again by the
mothers at the ashram. Baba was given a variety of treatments, all of
which failed. Everyone was worried, but Kehar Singh ji slept soundly
that night. He did not have diarrhea for the next three days and
thereafter recovered without any medicine. His prayer was answered. At
Vrindavan ashram, Baba got up at about five thirty in the evening of
the next day. He bathed himself and talked cheerfully to everyone as
usual. Sri Ma knew that Baba had taken someone else's disease upon
himself in order to relieve the sufferer, but no one knew who had
received that grace.
One of Baba's devotees, who had been in
Vrindavan while Baba was sick, returned to Lucknow and told Kehar Singh
ji that Baba had been in bad shape because of diarrhea. He told him the
date that Baba had taken ill. It was the same night that Kehar Singh ji
had prayed to Baba to cure his diarrhea. Kehar Singh felt remorse when
he came to know that Baba had endured pain because of him.
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