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Going to the village from the hospital at Mandvi and then to Bomaby again was a very difficult and inconvenient task. I therefore told my younger son :
"Take me to my Guruniji (female preceptor) from here. I shall stay there till your father arrives. I desire to complete my last rites; I do not hope to survive."
We went to Kodai (Kutch) to my Guruniji. I requested her :
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“Let the entire Sangha take to the Japa of 11 lakh Mantras of Shri Navakara for the calming down of my pains."
The whole Sangha reacted favourably and sat in Japa of Shri Navakara Mantra. Nobody could bear with my acute suffering.
Thus, about eight days passed and my acute pain got mild to some extent. In the meanwhile, my husband arrived and proceeded to Bombay.
Now, it happened that thanks to the effect of the Navakara Mantra, my husband happened to meet a gentleman. During the course of their talk, he said:
"Don't go to Bombay for operation. On the way, on the Mandvi-Bhuj Road, there is a village known as Dahinsar. There is a Vaidya who treats of the stomach- ailments very effectively. We thought we might take a chance. We told our taxi-driver: "First take us to Dahinsar." We consulted the Vaidya. He said: "You have caught Hypatitis. You might survive for two days. But I have a way out. It is to give a skin-burn.
The last effort of doctors is operation and of Ayurveda it is skin-burn. We fully thought over the matter.
