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I was taken on the operation bed. Dr. Sir Night, Dr. Reid and Dr. Nicholson started my operation with utmost care.
I was under the care of the Navakara Mahamantra; the operation was started at 12 noon and ended at 4 p.m. Six ounces of pus and six small and big rotten bones were extracted.
The doctors were surprised. So much of pus and rotten bones were extracted and still the patient was alive! How? The pains were lawfully acute and yet the patient remained composed. How? What miracle was this ? All hearts conceded that “God is great!"
At 4.10 p.m., I was back on my bed. I lifted the phone and asked for Mrs. Jhaveri. It was through a misunderstanding that I was talking to the matron. On hearing my voice on the phone she was all in excitement for a while. "Oh! Dr. Jhaveri! Are you happy? Thank you." The matron joined the call for my wife. I told her :
"I am at perfect ease. Thanks to the great power of Shri Navakara, ..... no, not the operation ..... I have returned to my bed safe. I have returned from the jaws of death. How fortunate am I! It is the Navakara Mantra that became my companion and brought me back from the direction of perversities in this Mleccha land."
Immediately almost my wife rushed to the hospital with our two daughters. Seeing me at ease, relaxed and happy, she too was overcome with joy and overcome with deep feelings of devotion.
Then it was that in a course of dialogue with my elder daughter, I came to know that at home my wife had continuously chanted the Navakara Mantra and had
