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Doctor Roy's Healing and Death

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Sri Yukteswar's predictions and healings come true exactly, even for sceptics who resist his counsel.

  1. Prediction and reprieve both held exactlyDr. Roy was told he had six weeks, was given six more months for the narrator's sake, recovered on schedule and dropped dead when the extension ran out.
  2. The guru healed sceptics despite their disbeliefBoth Dr. Roy and Shashi ignored the counsel they were given, yet each was restored after agreeing to wear an astrological bangle.
  3. Sri Yukteswar shaped the narrator's studies tooHe promised the unprepared student would pass his finals, then saw Serampore College affiliated with the University of Calcutta so the narrator could take his A.B. near him.
Executive Summary AI
  • Chapter seventeen of Autobiography of a Yogi opens with the narrator bringing the sceptical Dr. Narayan Chandler Roy to the Serampore hermitage, where Sri Yukteswar calls him "a dead man" after a nearly silent interview.
  • Sri Yukteswar says the doctor's natural time to leave the earth is six weeks away, grants a six-month extension because of the narrator's plea, and sets one condition: the man must wear an astrological bangle.
  • Dr. Roy mocks the bangle as superstition, falls suddenly ill a week later, is declared hopeless by his physician because of diabetes, then recovers completely within a month exactly as predicted.
  • Six months later the doctor boasts that eating meat restored his strength and that the diet advice did not influence him; the next morning Santosh reports that his father dropped dead.
  • A parallel case follows with the narrator's college friend Shashi, warned a year in advance, healed of galloping tuberculosis at a distance after wearing a bangle; the chapter closes with Sri Yukteswar predicting the narrator's exam success and arranging, through Professor Howells, a four-year A.B. course at Serampore College.
Key Quote
“his natural time to leave this earth is six weeks from to-day”
— Sri Yukteswar
Key Quote
“I am in the best of health. You will never impress me with these astrological superstitions.”
— Dr. Roy
Key Quote
“It is the most amazing case in my experience.”
— The attending physician

Transcript

0:00 chapter seventeen of autobiography of a yogi this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox dot org autobiography of a look at him the tone of voice used by dr narayan chandleroye implied that he was humouring the whim of half a bit on the invisible side dr roy accompanied me the following day to the sarampur hermitage
0:52 after master had granted him a brief interview marked for the most part by stoic silence on both sides the visitor briskly departed why bring a dead man to the ashram sri yukteswar looked at me inquiringly as soon as the door had closed on the calcutta skeptic sir the doctor is very much alive but in a short time he will be dead
1:15 i was shocked sir this will be a terrible blow to his son santosh yet hopes for time to change his father's materialistic views i beseech you master to help the man very well for your sake my guru's face was impassive will give him up for lost his natural time to leave this earth is six weeks from to-day due to your intercession however on that date he will recover but there is one condition you must get him to wear an astrological bangle consideration master chuckled after a silence during which i wondered how santosh and i could best employ the arts of cajolery on the recalcitrant doctor sri yukteswar made further disclosures however, and in six months, just as he is feeling at his best, he will drop dead. Even that six-month
2:27 extension of life is granted him only because of your plea. The following day I suggested to
2:32 Santosh that he order an omelette at the jeweller's. It was ready in a week, but Dr. Roy refused to put
2:39 it on. I am in the best of health. You will never impress me with these astrological superstitions.
2:51 The doctor glanced at me belligerently. I recalled with amusement that Master had justifiably compared the man to a balky horse. Another seven days passed. The doctor, suddenly ill,
2:57 meekly consented to wear the bangle. Two weeks later the physician in attendance told him that
3:02 his patient's case was hopeless. He supplied harrowing details of the ravages inflicted by diabetes.
3:09 I shook my head.
3:11 My guru has said that after a sickness lasting one month, Dr. Roy will be well.
3:17 The physician stared at me incredulously,
3:20 but he sought me out a fortnight later with an apologetic air.
3:24 Dr. Roy has made a complete recovery,
3:26 he exclaimed. It is the most amazing case in my experience. Never before have I seen a dying man
3:32 show such an inexplicable comeback. Your guru must indeed be a healing prophet.
3:39 After one interview with Dr. Roy, during which I repeated Sri Yukteswar's advice about a meatless diet,
3:51 I did not see the man again for six months. He stopped for a chat one evening, as I sat on the piazza of my family home on Gopar Road. Tell your teacher that by eating meat frequently,
3:57 I have wholly regained my strength. His unscientific ideas on diet have not influenced me.
4:04 It was true that Dr. Roy looked a picture of
4:06 health, but the next day Santosh came running to me from his home on the next block. This morning,
4:12 father dropped dead. This case was one of my strangest experiences with master. He healed the
4:19 rebellious veterinary surgeon in spite of his disbelief, and extended the man's natural term
4:24 on earth by six months,
4:30 just because of my earnest supplication. Sri Yukteswar was boundless in his kindness when confronted by the urgent prayer of a devotee. It was my proudest privilege to bring college
4:36 friends to meet my guru. Many of them would lay aside, at least in the ashram, their fashionable
4:42 academic cloak of religious scepticism. One of my shashi spent a number of happy weekends in sarampur master became immensely fond of the boy and lamented that his private life was wild and disorderly hence you will be dangerously ill sri yukteswar gazed at my friend with affectionate exasperation mukundo is the witness don't say later that i didn't warn you
5:11 shashi laughed master i will leave it to you to interest the sweet charity of cosmos in my own sad case my spirit is willing but my will is weak You are my only saviour on earth.
5:27 I believe in nothing else.
5:31 At least you should wear a two-carat blue sapphire.
5:32 It will help you.
5:34 I can't afford one.
5:37 Anyhow, dear Guruji, if trouble comes,
5:39 I fully believe you will protect me.
5:43 In a year, you will bring three sapphires.
6:06 Sri Yukteswar replied cryptically. they will be of no use then variations on this conversation took place regularly A year later, I was visiting my guru at the Calcutta home of his disciple, Norin Babu.
6:11 About ten o'clock in the morning, as Sri Yukteswar and I were sitting quietly in the second-floor parlour,
6:13 I heard the front door open.
6:15 Master straightened stiffly.
6:18 It is that Shashi, he remarked gravely.

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