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51. Shri Navakara-The Donor of Life
Karamshi Manekji Shah 208, Giriraj Apartments, Behind Giriraj Theatre, Navasari (Dist. Valsad)
The Navakara Mahamantra is the very purport of the 14 Poorvas. One who regularly propitiates is bound to reap many gains. Even at the moments of calamity one takes recourse to it, that Atma safely comes out of it. Here, I narrate one experience of mine with reference to it.
My daughter Shital aged eight and my son Udayan aged 3 years, both study in school. When children study in school together louses enter the heads of children. As my wife has paralysis of the right hand, she could not brush the hairs of my children. On 7-7-84 we purchased a medicine for the purpose and applied into their heads. This we did at 10 p.m. and we went to sleep. The fan was on and the doors of the room were closed. My son suddenly got up at 4 a.m. and said:
"I experience an electric current." I put the light on and saw that no wire was broken; no mouse or insect had broken any. Again, when he shouted at 5 a.m. froth was oozing out of his mouth. Froth began to ooze out of the mouth of my daughter also and both the children went unconscious. Immediately the children were admitted to the Civil Hospital. Doctors were also frightened. I commenced the chanting of the Navakara Mantra. The boy being younger was worse-affected. Tubes were entered through the nose and poison was extracted.
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