“ Uthie Beheraji, Behera Babu uthie” That was the call from the omnipotent, omniscient and almighty God to an old man of his sixties on an early winter morning at Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMC), Vellor, India. After repeated calls he woke up and grace the God’s presence.
During my summer vacation last year I had gone to my native place to spend my vacations. On those days I had gone to my relatives home .During one of my visits to my Uncles house what we call mamu ghar in our local language, I came in contact with an old man of his mid sixties. He told me a vivid story about his experience of feeling the God’s Presence. He also made me a promise to make that a story and publish for him in the local weekly “The Arjee” of kalahandi. So I gave him a word and publish that on the 1st week of last month.
As everybody knows that the Brahmins of Kalahandi are Vedic scholars, traditional in nature and are the stunch follower of Hinduism. The old man which I am talking about is also that kind of person and also a Brahmin of a middle class rural family of Kalahandi. He has a deep belief of God’s presence. As per him what ever we people are now all are due to the grace to God. The name of the old man is Mr. Premananda Behera. His religious teacher is Swami Chidananda Sarawati, President The Divine Life Society, Rishikesh, India. He has a strong belief on his holy teacher and also a follower of his ideology and religious words.
Behera Babu has a happy family which comprises of his wife and two sons. He spent his time by reading Hindu epics, farming and attending religious conferences by eminent personalities. But when time passes he suddenly feel ill and became weaker and weaker. His body mechanism starts not responding food. So he decided to make a healt check up at CMC, Vellor.
Behera Babu fixed an appointment with the doctor and checked his health. When the report came the doctors became surprised and sorry to say that Behera babu has a tumor of about 0.3 mm size on his brain. The doctors also told that the tumor is on the verge of growing mode and should be eradicated soon otherwise will hamper his health and brain. So with out any delay he was appointed in the Hospital for the treatment of Brain Tumor. The cost of the operation was somehow around 2 lacks and will take 4-5 weeks. The tumor will be eradicated by the help of nuclear ray what we call cemo therapy treatment on the physicians languages.
The operation date was finalized and before night behera babu’s brain was scanned. The doctors predicted that there’s a tumor of 0.35 mm. On that night Behera Babu had no sense and he slept on the ICU as a 1 month baby. The night was a winter night and everywhere it’s fog. The outer world seems to be silent at that time. During early morning Behera Babu heard a voice
“ Uthie Beheraji, Behera Babu uthie”
At first he thought that as a dream. But when the voice gradually increased he woke up from his bed and sat down. He saw a divine torch focusing his face. After some instant he saw his holy Gurdev calling him with opened arms. He graced the god’s presence. The almighty Gurudev touched his head and blessed him and told “ Sarve Vabantu Sukhino”
After some time Behera babu again lost his sense and fell sleepy as a restless person. On that morning the doctors came for the final test before the operation which was scheduled to be at that evening. They scanned his brain and when saw the report became surprised that there’s no tumor on his brain. They thought some thing might be wrong on the test. After several (2 to 3 tests) they found the same thing and thought that as a miracle. On that day the doctors told all the people present there that “ God is the first and the best doctor of the human soul”. When I heard this I can’t believe it as the old man now a days seems to be more active whom I saw last 2 years back.
From this I came to know that all greatest treasures of the Life can be achieved if we have a faith on God and have a positive attitude. The experience of the old man teaches me a lesson that
“ Every Day is a new beginning for us Every moment ”
