His Healing Touch

Four years ago, my only son (now 10 years of age) had a severe scald, when he slipped into boiling sugar cane juice, his right forearm being badly affected. He could not bear the pain and he was crying piteously. Soon, his voice began to falter and fail. He shouted that he was dying. The plight of the unhappy parents can hardly be described. A thousand thoughts rushed through my mind… of Draupadi, of Gajendra, of our beloved Baba’s grace. I and my wife began bhajan in all earnestness. My wife shuddering with sorrow moaned, ‘Baba, Baba’ and could not sing the namavalis. I consoled her, asked her not to give up hope and we started bhajan again.

Soon to our most pleasant surprise, the boy said that somebody was stroking and caressing the arm and that he was feeling better. He asked for Baba’s vibhuti, took it in his palm with a smile, and swallowed it; he wanted that the bhajan should continue! Strange to say within five minutes the boy was free from pain. His mother cried, ‘Baba, Baba,’ with mingled feelings of joy and thankfulness, overpowered by this single act of Baba’s grace. Then, I left for my dispensary to attend upon the patients waiting for me. When I returned home at noon, my son was playing with the other children as usual! In about four days, the scald marks disappeared!

When next we went to Puttaparthi, Baba held up the right forearm of my son (to confirm that it was His healing touch that saved the boy that day) and smiled at us, to assure us that He is ever at the side of all who call on Him!

~Dr. B. M. Muniswamy Rao
Source: Sanathana Sarathi, Dec. 1959