The year was 1933.
Shri Nathji was a young man vacationing in the Himalayas of Mussoorie. He was
staying at the residence of the Registrar of the Lucknow University, R.R.
Khanna, who had been converted to a life of faith in Shri Nathji in just a
miraculous moment, and had thereafter become a staunch devotee of Shri Nathji ,
after having being a scientist and atheist all his life. The entire city of
Lucknow had been astonished at the conversion of this hardened atheist.
While Shri Nathji was
staying at the summer home of Khanna in Mussoorie and writing the biography of
his Father, Shri Babaji Maharaj, a family from Calcutta used to visit him. This
was the famous Bery Brothers Family of businessmen. Their sister-in- law in
particular had acquired great faith in Shri Nathji and would sit and weep
before him for long hours overwhelmed with spiritual emotion.
One day Shri Nathji
was going for a walk alone on the Mall Road of Mussoorie when he met Dr.
Bucher, a British Doctor, at the very ill equipped main hospital at Mussoorie
which had very primitive facilities to be almost non-existent.
Falling ill in
Mussoorie was a great calamity for anyone with such scarcity of medical aid.
Dr. Bucher was riding
on a horse on the Mall as he passed by Shri Nathji and he saluted Shri Nathji
and said:
"Sir, Mrs. Bery
is very very ill! We have to operate upon her tomorrow! It is to be a major
operation."
Having an operation
in such a place was an unthinkable idea except for the fact that there was no
other alternative in an emergency.
The next day everyone
was astonished when they saw Mrs. Bery walking into Shri Nathji's residence
along with her family, the Bery Brothers!
And this is what she
had to narrate:
"O Nathji! When
they were wheeling away me to the operation theatre I was simply praying to
youi 'Nathji! Nathji! Nathji!"
They placed me on the
operation table and just before they gave me the choloroform, I had a clear and
distinct vision of you standing inside the operation theatre.
You were smiling and
were saying:
'Mrs. Bery! Nothing
is wrong with you!'
"Saying this you
vanished.
"I was more than
surprised when Dr. Bucher suddenly announced to me:
"Mrs Bery! We
have carried out a detailed examination. There will be no need for an operation
at present. You may go home!!"
Mrs. Bery added:
" O Nathji! it was your miracle! I have come running here to thank you
Nathji! You always remain with me in every difficult moment of life!"
Her brothers said:
" We had read of such remarkable cures by the rishis and maharishis of old
in the scriptures. But this is beyond anything we have read!"
Shri Nathji added:
" This is all the result of the supreme Faith of Mrs. Bery!"
Shri Nathji was not
one to capilalise on such miracles or even to make them known. He wanted
nothing from anyone, neither name, nor fame nor followers, he was like the Sun
doing his work all the time or like the invisible air, or an invisible God
sitting somewhere doing all his works incognito. But neither the Bery Brothers
of Calcutta nor the Khanna family forgot this incident and would not tire of
speaking of it.
Once Mrs. Bery said
to Shri Nathji:
"O Nathji when I
think of you all the time, no illness or calamity in the world can shake me.
But when I forget you even for a while , even small ailments become difficult
to endure!"
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