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now that he felt relieved during the night. After a few hours he said : "My throat was not prepared to permit one drop of water. Now I feel that I will take a glass of warm milk."
The glass of milk was brought. Ratanchand gulped the glass, as if in no time. All the relatives were surprised. They saw that a patient was entering youthfulness; had returned as if from the door of the cemetery-ground.
Ratanchand banished all medicines and now got lost for hours in the chanting of the Mahamantra for hours at a time. This was a favourite and indescribable experience to him. The chanting was on for a few days more. Now there was absolutely no sign of cancer in his body. Then fruits and food went down the throat. 24th February was given to him as the last date. Exactly two months after this date Ratanchand went on foot and met Dr. Bharucha. The doctor could not believe his eyes; was it a ghost of Ratanchand! Then suddenly he said :
"This is my first experience in which the patient went to the cemetery-ground, gave a slip to the God of death - Yama and came back. Which medicine did all this good to you? Name it, so that further research is possible in the sphere of cancer."
Ratanchand replied: "This is a miracle caused by some inconceivable power. A Himalaya full of medicines accepts defeat. It is here that the unstinted faith in the Mahamantra comes and is victorious. Only faith holds the power to defeat the power of medicines. I have won victory in the battle of life and death only because of the propitiation of faith. I spent years and lakhs of rupees after
