Mateshwari condition
was not improving and as began to lose physical consciousness, Priya Nath
telephoned the emergency medical aid services, who removed Mateshwari to St.
Mary’s Hospital in London. A certain Dr. Bostroff attended upon her. Both, Pran
Nath and Priya Nath, offered their kidneys for a transplant if it was possible.
But the doctor shook his head. It was too late. He said he would try his best, and
that the case would take some time. He urged Shri Nathji and Pran Nath to
return home and rest for a few hours. Priya Nath thought he heard Mateshwari
calling: "Nathji! Nathji!"
No sooner had Shri
Nathji, Pran Nath and Priya Nath returned to their home at 10, Fawley Road,
when the telephone rang. Priya Nath happened to be close to the phone, and
picked it up apprehensively. "Mr. Mehta," said a voice on the phone, "your
mother just died." For a moment, Priya Nath was stunned. He could not
understand the meaning of the world "died." From his very youth he
had been afraid that his mother would leave him one day. All such fears came to
be realized on that fateful day. It was he, who had been destined to hear the
terrible words first. Many years ago, when Mateshwari had been dangerously ill
at Mussoorie, a doctor had arrived from the St. Mary’s Hospital there, and had
asked that she be admitted to the hospital. Mateshwari had refused to go. It was
an irony of fate, that several years later, she left her body in St. Mary’s
Hospital in London. Shri Nathji, Pran Nath and Priya Nath rushed to the
Hospital. There, a young assistant doctor met them who told them very sympathetically
that Mateshwari had passed away. Shri Nathji had tears in his eyes as he
embraced the young assistant doctor and said to him: "Doctor, you are a very
good man." "She died a very peaceful Death," said the doctor,
"unlike any we have ever seen before.”
Pran Nath bent down
and touched her feet, along with Shri Nathji. The day was the 5th of August
1967. It was at eight thirty in the morning, that Mateshwari had left Shri
Nathji and her two sons, and had gone to her Divine Abode to remain forever in
the Universe as the Invisible Form of the Divine Mother.
St Mary's Hospital is
a hospital located in Paddington, London, England that was founded in 1845. It
is also home of many inventions in the field of medicine like that of
Penicillin. The laboratory where Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin has
been restored to its cramped condition of 1928 and incorporated into a museum
about the discovery and his life and work.
No comments:
Post a Comment