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had eaten the last night. The incident points out that anything given
at Guruji’s place loses physical significance and is prasad.

Guruji’s blessings during surgeries

My father is not only diabetic but also a heart patient. He once had
some chest pain at night. He did not think much of it and used hot
bottles and massages to suppress the pain. Somehow he managed to
get through the night, but with the situation worsening every passing
minute, he finally called me up in the early hours next morning.

When I reached his place, we rushed him to Apollo Hospital, near
Noida. Preliminary investigations indicated that the previous night
Dad had had a massive heart attack and doctors were surprised at
the laxity shown in our turning up at the hospital. However, after
a complete case analysis, doctors advised a bypass surgery. It was
expected to be a complicated affair given that my father’s diabetic.
It normally takes a diabetic more than double the time to heal than
a normal patient. But, with no other options left, doctors proceeded
with the surgery after taking the consent of our family. Within the
short notice of just a few hours, making all the arrangements for
surgery was quite challenging.

But Guruji’s grace was evident in the way the hospital staff
supported us. The surgeon was the first to set the ball rolling
by offering his blood in the absence of sufficient units available.
Moreover, a complicated surgery was carried out under the expert
guidance of the head of the heart surgery department, a surgeon who
is available in India only for 10-12 days a month. The availability of
that surgeon is hard to ensure even with appointments made 15-20
days in advance. But in our case, without any intimation, he was
available in a few hours.

My father’s experience as he underwent the surgery was not
traumatic at all. After he had gained consciousness, he enquired
about the pre-operative results of the investigations, as he had no
idea that he had been operated on! Everything that happened that
day had an element that cannot be defined or explained and in fact
shows that smooth sailing for my Dad would not have been possible
without Guruji’s divine intervention. Not just that, the pace of my
father’s post-surgical recovery was surprising even for doctors.

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