Jainism Abroad

Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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where hungry Gurnomal had already sat down washing his hands and Rohan had also followed the suit. With all her love and joy, mummy served Rohan the new item first and asked, "How is the taste ?...."
Unknowing and Unaware were all of the poisonous little lizard that had fallen and mixed in this special, surprise food dish. Rohan tried the very first core and as soon as he swallowed it and the stuff reached in the stomach, he cried out, "O Mom ! What is this?" saying so he fell unconscious on the Jhoola Bed, baffled Mother-Father tried to lift and hold him, raised a cry to the Doctor-neighbor next door, who rushed in immediately, quickly and alertly judged the whole situation from the food dishes lying over there. The aware and extra-conscious doctor sensing some foodpoisioning, took no time in finding the dead tiny lizard mixed in the recipe food vessel. He spontaneously got some laxative medicines ready from his home, put strong dose in Rohan's mouth, also gave him other necessary treatment and made him to vomit out soon, what he had eaten.
What a wonder, his timely medication and treatment had made Rohan to vomit whole of the poisonous core, brought him to consciousness, but without taking any chance, the doctor rushed him along with his parents in his car to his nearby hospital. All the required after-treatments : Medicines, Injections, oral & stomach washing out of the poison, everything followed in no time and Rohan's precious life was saved.... !
"Oh...... oh..... so terrible.... So tragic....?" Rohan and Gurnomal exclaimed, Rohan's stunned, weeping mothercursing her ownself for her gross blunder went on continuosly praying God and told the doctor. "God came in your form, otherwise my folly of carelessly preparing the food in the night would have taken away our darling Rohan from us...... ! God, you have saved him.... In what words shall we express our gratitudes to you, in what words, Doctor ?" and she went on weeping embarrassing Rohan to her chest. Gurnomal and Rohan were also full of so much feelings in their hearts and tears in their eyes, that they could not utter the words.
The healing kind Doctor blessed them all with his warm hands and heart and replied, "Glory be to God...... he has saved you all.... I am just an instrument in his hands.... He has given you a new life. The dark dark nightmare is over. Yes, the nightmare of Night-eatings, the Grave consequences of Night-eatings and awarenessless Night-Cooking. God, Nature has given you a warning, shown you a Red-Signal to stop Night-eatings henceforth. God has endorsed my daily advise and insistence to you all to abandon night-eatings. Today, you yourself have experienced and realized the grave consequences of it ....." Accepting this Godly Doctor's words in toto, they all vowed : "NOW ONWARDS WE WILL NEVER EAT OR COOK IN THE NIGHT, AFTER THE SUNSET." Then they all returned home from the hospital, threw away all foodstuff for ever and sat down praying God with Bhajans. From the depth of their hearts they were singing today :
"SAB KUCHH HAMNE TUMSE PAYA, HUM TO TUMHARE DAS, PRABHUJI....!" "PARAM KRUPALU PRABHU PARAMGURU"
Singing and chanting this for hours and hours they all slipped into the sleep-lap of God and their new life began from the next morning. Their dark dark NIGHTMARE OF NIGHT-EATINGS was over now.
Here, at Rochester in U.S.A. also, after listening to this touching true story, the whole family of my kind host, was so much moved that they took the similar vow from that very moment "TO ABANDON NIGHT-EATINGS", surrendering themselves at the feet of the Lord and the Master, while going to bed.
At the end of the day, I was also happy and contended that my MASTER'S MISSION WAS SUCCESSFUL. I bowed in reverence unto him and slipped into my meditative sleep, praying:
"LET THE MASTER'S WILL OF ABANDONING OF NIGHT-EATINGS, THE ROOT CAUSE OF SEVERAL ILLS, SPREAD EVERYWHERE IN THIS UNAWARE WORLD....!"
Om Shanti......Shanti.......Shanti.......... (COPYRIGHT ARTICLE) Jina Bharati, Bangalore, 1988 VARDHAMAN BHARATI INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION Prabhat Complex, K.G. Road, Bangalore-560009.
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