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One day at the ashram, a boyfriend of mine, Sohan Lal Oswal, and I decided to repeat the Namokar Mantra 125,000 times, with the blessing of my guru. It took 49 days to complete the mantra and we could do nothing else during this time. To avoid breaking our concentration, our meals were served to us by a young girl who was like my own sister. We were warned by our guru not to feel any desire during our practices otherwise the effect of the mantra would be destroyed.
After eight days of the mantra practice, the young girl appeared and she was crying and trembling with fear and she told me that she had been bitten by a poisonous scorpion spider. Many people came to the ashram and did mantra for the suffering girl; but their offerings did not really help her. I began to ask myself: can mantra really heal? I decided, then and there, to test my question even though my guru did not know about my intention to help the girl through mantra practice.
When I went to the girl I repeated the Namokar Mantra for a long time until I was in a deep and concentrated state of mind. Then, when I saw the kundalini energy start to flow in the form of heat and light in my consciousness, I touched the girl on the thigh where the swelling from the scorpion's bite was most evident. As I repeated the mantra, I tied a handkerchief around her thigh and moved it slowly down her leg. Amazingly, the deep blue, swelled area disappeared beneath the turnicut as I repeated the mantra and passed my energy
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