Jai SriRam
This incident occurred when NITINDADA lived in Aquem, Goa. From the beginning of August 2010, DADA'S B.P. used to be very low; with systolic BP lower than 60 (which is alarming)! Still, HE continued going to work and used to come home looking exhausted. The local GP (family doctor) had advised immediate hospitalisation, which DADA refused.
I had been to HIS house on the 22nd Aug. for Satsang. HE was unwell and had severe diarrhoea. When I was leaving, HE told me, "tomorrow I am going to fall ill. So if you can, please come here because your aunties (my 2 aunties at that time were 65 & 76 yrs old) and uncle (he was 83 yrs old) will get scared". HE told me not to call the doctor and hospitalisation would not be required. I asked HIM whether I could stay with HIM the next night. HE said it would not be required. So I told my aunties that, "maybe HIS diarrhoea will worsen tomorrow so we should keep lemon juice ready for HIM".
On the morning of the 23rd, DADA went to work. In the evening, HE picked me up on HIS way home to Aquem. After the Satsang, DADA got a call from Indiratai (Dada's wife), who was boarding a flight at Greenville to go to New York to come to India. She told HIM she would call on reaching New York (which was a 2-hr journey).
At the dinner table, as DADA'S dinner was getting over, the bowl of curd and spoon fell from HIS hands with a jerk. The expressions on HIS face changed completely. HE was about to lose consciousness. We held HIM and took HIM to the nearby sofa. HE collapsed, lost HIS consciousness completely and had difficulty in breathing. HIS breathing was laboured and worsened gradually, HE started gasping for air. Gradually, HIS respiration slowed down, and at a point, it completely stopped. There was no pulse. HIS B.P. was not recordable, no heart sounds on auscultation. HIS body became completely still/frozen, there was no sign of life. We were all watching this helplessly. I was praying to HIM. I panicked thinking HE had given up HIS life.
After about 3-4 minutes or more, HE suddenly took a deep breath and gradually HIS breathing improved, HE regained consciousness. Immediately HE got up and asked for water. HE drank almost 1 and a half bottles of cold water. HE was smiling as if nothing had happened. HIS face was glowing. The whole ordeal lasted for over an hour. HIS pulse became normal. HIS B.P. was 120/80. This was the first time, since August, HIS B.P. was normal. Soon, HE got a call from Indiaratai to inform that she had reached New York. HE spoke to her in HIS usual manner (she was completely unaware of what had happened).
At around 10 pm, Suhas (my husband) came to pick me up. Though he was aware that DADA was going to fall sick, he found HIM to be absolutely normal. In fact, he commented "आज दादांचा चेहरा अतिशय तेजस्वी दिसतोय." With HIS Grace, what I had witnessed was beyond my comprehension as a doctor and couldn't be explained by medical science. From that moment onwards HIS B.P. returned to normal. HE later told us that HE had taken someone's sufferings (भोग) onto HIMSELF that he had to endure.
We took HIM to the local physician with a complaint of low B.P. The doctor asked HIM to do various blood tests. All HIS tests came normal. Then HE asked me, "Can't you connect the dots?" I was stunned to hear that. On recollecting all the events which had sequentially taken place with regards to HIS illness, with HIS Grace, I realised that it was all connected to the sufferings of someone which HE had taken onto HIMSELF that day. So HE had been unwell, for the last entire month, and it culminated in this episode.
With HIS Grace I realised HE is connected to all beings; HE is the Almighty Lord who is in complete control of everything. HIS infinite compassion for everyone is so much that the person whose sufferings HE had taken on HIMSELF was/is unaware of this.
Sashtaang Namaskaar.
Jai SriRam
16-10-2020 09:52 pm / POSTED BY : Alpana Kulkarni / Where the Experience took place : 23rd August 2010, Aquem, Goa
