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| In relating this “story” I wish to make it absolutely clear that I
do not possess any “special” powers, or any special spiritual insights.
Like most people, I am only a seeker endeavoring to purify myself through
this healing seva (service).
My daughter Saraswati, was born overseas in 1980 - a perfect baby. On the seventh day of her existence, she was erroneously given an allopathic drug that almost killed her right away. Thanks to the prompt usage of naturopathic techniques by my mother, she survived; but we discovered later, that her eyes were damaged to a great extent. That day, I promised my baby and myself that I would take responsibility for her health, and not rely blindly on a doctor ever again. On the 40th day, when I was able to travel, I came to India and met our family homoeopath and begged him to teach me Homoeopathy so that I could be self-sufficient. He introduced me to Schuzler’s Twelve Tissue Salts - the Biochemic Remedies. That was the beginning of a long journey of discovery that took place through helping other mothers to become self-sufficient as I had become. With the Grace of the Lord, I was able to also study Homoeopathy, Acupressure, Naturopathy, Ayurveda and much more. As I learnt, I practiced. And as there was success, I kept teaching all that I knew to mothers who were willing to learn. This went on for 13 long years. I worked for the love of helping others. In doing so, my own family benefited hugely. My daughter, who had been told she would be completely blind by age six, recovered completely, and now has only simple myopia which continues to reduce yearly. In 1985 we were introduced to the Love and Grace of Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Suddenly, the service that I was offering to other mothers took on a new meaning. I realised that I was not the healer - that He alone was the Master Healer and I was only a very blessed instrument given the most wonderful opportunity to serve Him through sick and suffering people. His slogan “Maanav seva is Maadhav seva,” (service to man is service to God), gave our lives a new meaning. Almost immediately after joining the Sai fold, I began to be guided by Him in dreams. I learnt from my very first dream that this was serious stuff. When He said that something needed to be done, it had to be done - period. I never took His dreams lightly. Meanwhile, the free clinic we ran was becoming training ground for many serious healers. We started to get selective about our patients, and began to take only serious, and end-of-the-road cases - that Allopathy had turned away. With His Grace, the results were invariably miraculous, and always beyond expectations. In 1993, Baba asked me in a dream to return to India. He said that there was a lot of work to be done in India and if we took this first step, He would guide us every step of the way. So it happened that in May 1993 we all returned to India. We were first guided to serve the earthquake victims in Latur (Maharashtra, India). Later, from January 1994 onwards, Baba arranged that we held seminars in cities all over India - teaching Natural Healing and basic Homoeopathy to anyone who wanted to learn. Our seminars were always free and well attended - about 100-250 people at each gathering. We had done this for four months when we began to realise that the real motive of our seminars was not being achieved. The real aim was, to motivate people to take up homoeopathic seva for villages and slums etc. We realised there was a blockage because people felt a medical license was necessary to practice Homoeopathy, even for free. And certainly, it required some amount of study to reach any kind of proficiency. So while we continued with seminars, we started to pray fervently to Baba to sort out this problem - we also knew that our limited resources could not last indefinitely. In April 1994, Baba began to appear in my dreams with great regularity. Soon I was told in a dream that we would have to stop teaching Homoeopathy, as healing had to be simple enough for the common man on the street to follow and implement. We were shocked out of our wits when the next dream said that a new system of healing had to take birth! With subsequent dreams, over a period of eight months - I was guided
to make the Sanjeevinis. The thrills and the doubts, the joy and the tears
of those eight months, cannot be recounted. Our lives were turned upside
down; but on 9th November 1994, the last pieces of the jigsaw puzzle finally
came together and on the 11th morning, after working 48 hours without sleep
- I had 144 Sanjeevinis ready. These were dispatched to very sick people
in Mumbai, Delhi and the Middle East, and the effect was electric. The
cures were almost instantaneous. By the 16th of November, we knew that
- we had been given the most unimaginably precious gift by Baba - a simple,
spiritual healing system that worked miracles.
This was a BIG miracle and it hasn’t stopped - for with each new patient who is helped and healed and consoled, the miracle goes on and on and on! Today there are 246 Sanjeevinis. The system is so simple that it needs almost no study whatsoever. It’s we who are complicated. As one person who attended a seminar in April 1995, writing to us from Germany, said, “.... My own western thinking was still too complicated, so I could not believe in the effect of the Sanjeevinis - so I didn’t use them. I only started in April 1996 with wonderful results! There must be the right time and the right attitude towards God that makes things work.” As we joyfully recall the story of the Sanathana Sai Sanjeevinis, we are overwhelmed with a deep sense of loving gratitude to so many people. To the enlightened souls who have blessed us with their Experiential wisdom and Knowledge; to those who fearlessly worked with us and shared with us the hope to make everyone self-reliant in matters of health; and, to those who, in their intense desire to share knowledge of natural and spiritual healing with the masses, organized so many seminars and teaching sessions in all parts of India and the world. Many more are being inspired to share knowledge of the Sanathana Sai Sanjeevinis in different parts of the world - we pray to the Lord to bless them all with Love and Grace in their selfless seva, to help relieve suffering. Let us open our hearts, our minds and our intellects to receive the Lord’s Grace. It is unlimited and unstoppable! Poornima Nagpal
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