Shrutsagar 2016 09 Volume 03 04

Author(s): Hiren K Doshi
Publisher: Acharya Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir Koba

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Beyond Doubt
Acharya Padmasagarsuri In the same village of Seth Mafatlal, lived an old lady named ganga. She suffered from severe stomach pain and went to take the advice of Seth Mafatlal thinking that he must have learned something about medicine from his father. Seth Mafatlal knew that his father gave Triphala powder to all those having any kind of pain and later on gave the apt medicine. The old lady hadonly stomach ache and as per the sethji's advice took the medicine regularly and was cured of the pain. Sethji's meritorious deeds were on the rise and so this was just the beginning of his fame and fortune. Once a potter lost his donkey and went to the Vaidya and asked him for a medicine by which he could locate his lost donkey. To him also seth Mafatlal gave the same Triphala powder and asked him to take the medicine early in the morning for three days. When he took the first dose of the medicine he received the nature's call and went to the outskirts of the city to atend to it. As soon as he reached the outskirts of the city, he saw his donkey and returned home quite pleased and happy.
The old lady and the potter were all praise for the doctor. In no time the whole city came to know about the doctor. The news reached the royal palace. The king was not in good terms with one of his queens, so the queen called the doctor and asked him to find a solution for her problem. The doctor had only one solution to all kinds of problems. He gave the queen also the same powder and asked her to take it continuously for some days and said that the king will come to her love and love her as before. The vaidya went his way and the queen began to take the medicine as advised by the vaidya. The queen suffered from violent purge and became too weak & finally was bedridden. So the ministers advised the king to visit the queen and forgive her. They said in such a condition, even arrowed enemies are to be forgiven but she happens to be your wife. Therefore the king went to console her, so that she might die peacefully. If he did not go and visit her the public would blame the king, and if he went to the queen, his