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would reach its final stage and eventually take away the life of the patient. When the saint learnt about the stage of his illness, he declared : "Now stop searching for new remedies. We have the route of spirituality. Then why go on the route of medical technology ?"
It may be hard to believe, but it is a real fact that even while he was so ill and bed-ridden, he completed one masakshaman (complete fasting for one month), and once he fasted continuously for 24 days. He was so engrossed in reading scriptures, contemplation, meditation and so on, that in his dedication to spirituality, the commotion of his physical pain was completely vanquished.
Those days, the specialist doctors of Mumbai were also completely astonished. They all felt that he should be a magician. In the mega war between his physical illness and the equanimity of his soul, the maintenance of equanimity emerged with a sparkling victory. The dwarf named physical illness could do nothing in front of the mammoth mantra of equanimity. The body was destroyed but his composure was intact. Science could not execute even a small miracle to save him from the invincible disease, whereas religion performed such a big miracle.
In such events you can see the power of karma and the power of religion. It is true that karmas have the destructive power to rip off the body, but an aspirant whose mind has found the protective shield of religion doesn't flinch a bit. Karmas can make an aspirant ill, but they cannot make him unhappy. Thanks to the power of religion !
It is possible that science may have been successful in preventing the germs of an incurable disease from
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