Sadhvi Kalp Lata
Sagarmalji Kothari, a faithful devotee, belonged to Ladnun. He led a religious life. Suddenly he had an attack of paralysis. In the last years of his life, he suffered from this terrible physical pain. He used to tolerate the pain with patience. One night he woke up all of a sudden and was so frightened, that, for once he scared his wife and daughter named Manak. All this happened at midnight when the clock struck twelve. Manak took it very lightly. She sat beside her father and started chanting the Mantra. Sometimes later he started grinding his teeth and staring at the darkness and if someone ‘dared to come near him, he may started beating him. Under this situation it became very difficult to pass the night. With great courage, Manak continued to chant her Mantra.
Later on, Sagarmalji started feeling sleepy and gradually, he slept. Early in the morning Manak reminded her father about the previous night’s incident and asked him what had actually happened. Her father simply replied that nothing had happened and felt sleepy.
Continuously for fifteen days, every midnight, Sagarmalji performed “similar mysterious actions which upset the family members to a great extent. One night Sagarmalji was uttering some insensible words, sometimes crying and sometimes laughing hysterically. At that moment Manak started to recite the Mantra of ‘Om Bhikshu’. On this sixteenth night while chanting’ the Mantra, Manak took a vow praying to Acharya Bhikshu, “If these mysterious gestures of my father stop from today, I would observe seven fasts on your Teras”. With this firm determination Manak started chanting the Mantra and subsequently Sagarmalji’s those unnatural actions subsided automatically.
