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"We will not give rent, we may vacate the place if you so desire."
The Englishman inquired : "Has the ghost disappeared ?" Acharyashri said :
"I see the ghost daily. But it can do nothing to any one of us, due to the Japa of our Navakara Mantra and due to our austerity of Ayambila."
The Englishman was silenced and the question of vacating the Vidyalaya did not arise.
Fire Was Extinguished In the 2019 riots in Calcutta, rioteers came to set the Jain Dela on fire. All the Jains sat in the meditation of the Navakara Mantra at the risk of their life. Rioteers spread petrol but there was no fire. Nothing was burnt for two hours. The police reached there in the meanwhile and arrested all the rioteers. The Jains were saved.
Cancer Got Cancelled This is an incident heard by us while we were at Idar (Gujarat) for Chaturmasa. A resident of Vadali, Popatlal Kalidas caught cancer four years back. The diagnosis at the Tata Hospital declared that he would not survive for long. It was then that his wife said : "If depart you must, if you cannot take food, then sit in meditation on the Navakara Mantra and the Siddhachakra. Let us also resolve from to-day that if there is recovery, we will arrange for the Ayambila Oli of the Chaitra month every year at Idar. Worship too should follow."
The patient recovered within a month. Doctors examined him and were surprised. To-day also though he is not able himself to take to Ayambila, the propitiation mentioned above continues.
