Than they happily lived thereafer - Weekly Inspirational

During childhood we used to read fairy tales where the Princes and her dream lover who used to be always on the horse, they overcome various difficulties to come together and the end of the story used to be always by the sentence ‘… than they happily lived thereafter’.

This is not a fairy tale of or a concocted story but a real life account of a renowned doctor of Calcutta. His marriage was shattered for years. Let us read his experience in his own words narrated to swami Akshayananda.

Mahapurush Maharaj was at that time under the treatment of Amarnath Mukherjee, a homeopathic doctor. I used to go to his house around eight o’clock each morning to give him a report about Mahapurush Maharaj’s condition. His house and furnishings were all Western in style and the doctor himself was always dressed in Western style. I went there one morning and was sitting in his drawing room. He greeted me and said, ‘Tell me something about Mahapurush Maharaj.’

I said, ‘You go to the Math very often and have seen him to many times. What more can I tell you about him?’

Then he said, ‘Through the grace of Mahapurush Maharaj, today is an auspicious day for me. Let me tell you what happened. I have been married to a girl of the Tagore family of Calcutta. But my wife and I have never seen eye to eye even for a single day. You see this house? It is divided into two separate sections. The eastern portion is mine, and the western portion my wife’s. I have always followed a Western way of life. A Muslim cook prepares Western style food for me. In the western portion of the house, a Brahmin cook prepares food for my wife with Ganges water. Though we have been married for a long time, we have not been in harmony with each other even for a single day. All the members of my wife’s family as well as various friends have tried to reconcile us many a time, but to no avail. My wife has refused to give up her orthodox habits, and I have also refused to bend. But for the last two or three days, I have lost my taste for meat and the food prepared by my Muslim cook. Yesterday I was unable to eat any of it at all. So I have let the cook go, and since yesterday my wife and I are together again. None of this would have been possible without the grace of Mahapurush Maharaj. I can clearly see that it has been through his holy company alone that this transformation has taken place in my mind.’

As he said this, his eyes welled up with tears. Instead of giving me that day’s medicine, he got up from his chair and said, ‘Come along. I would go to see Mahapurush Maharaj today.’ He called his driver, and we went together by car to the Math. He came that day wearing traditional Bengali dress.

[Source: Mahapurush Maharaj as we saw Him, page 232]