Hardly did 1948 turn into 1949 when Bhagavan body began to suffer in real earnest. Most of his old devotees knew that the Master was going to physically leave them and enter into Vidhehamukti, and they had nothing to give them solace but a blind hope and the distracted prophecies of some pseudo-astrologers. Bhagavan himself did not take the matter seriously, as in the beginning and he used to say that he was feeling no pain. He thought the doctors surgical treatment was absolutely unnecessary and would not alter what was destined for the body from the day of its birth, as ordained by Providence. As the treatment grew more and more serious and painful, from time to time, he used to remind the devotees and the doctors of his first wishes to leave the tumour to itself and to do nothing. Yet he would have certainly approved of the other medical systems-non-surgical-which were harmless and in all probability would have given him some relief, though not cure-Homeopathy, Malabari, Siddha, etc. , which were unavailingly used later. They all abhorred the use of the knife which scattered the symptoms and confused the physicians, especially the homeopaths, who rely on the symptoms to prescribe the remedies. But the allopaths insisted on doing their duty and their level best for him through surgery and radium application. They won, leaving Bhagavan resigned to his fate. It was his destiny he might have thought and so the best thing for him to do was to bear it all silently. Residual Reminiscences of Ramana
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