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The shape turned into that of a cow. The cow further told me: "You recited the Navakara Mantra for me, that has made a goddess of me."
I sought nothing. Yet the goddess told me: "At 9 a. m. tomorrow, let your husband sleep. He will be cured." And this actually happened. Next day, he slept soundly from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. He was cured. He too was thus endowed with faith.
In the month of Posh in Samvat 2041, the Devi again showed herself in my dream and said: "Your child is destined to suffer a serious calamity. Take care."
For two days we kept both my sons confined to the house. They were not sent to college. Then it was that we got information from Ahmedabad. My daughter Asha had fallen down from the roof; she was serious. We ran to Ahmedabad and remembered the goddess and requested her to save her. She said: "Your child's span of life is too short. I have not the power to save her. She will die at 9 a. m. on Wednesday." We knew that her last moment had come. Under protests from and harsh words of the relatives we made her undergo the final propitiation (Aradhana). But it was a matter of her Gati (movement from one birth to another.) How could we give consideration to the protest then? And really exactly at 9.05 a. m. her soul left the body while she was hearing the Navakara. With her previously obtained consent, her eyes were donated ...
Thus, we were overcome with sorrow due to the sudden death of our daughter. One night then the Devi again appeared in my dream and said: "Feel not sorry, get not worried. Your daughter has attained Sadgati (good next birth)."
