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CHAPTER 7. SHAME IS THE NAME OF THEIR GAME
He was walking every day, coming and going, because he loved walking, he enjoyed walking, but
he said, ”Now I cannot walk.” To me he said, ”You just go to the vice-chancellor and say to him that I
am in a terrible mess; the doctor is saying three months.... I don’t know what is going to happen, so
you tell him that if for a few days I don’t come, not to mind, but replace me with somebody.”
I took him in the car with the doctor and we took him inside the house. The wife was just trying to
hold herself together, otherwise she may have started giggling and laughing. And really her husband
was changed completely! The doctor was holding one hand, I was holding the other hand and he
was not even able to walk. We put him on the bed, and he said to the doctor, ”You can tell my wife.”
The doctor said, ”I will come in my own time. First let me go and prepare some medicines for you. It
is urgent.”
So he left. Professor Mehta asked me, ”Has the doctor said anything to you?”
I said, ”First look at these papers.”
He said, ”What papers? Has he given them to your
I said, ”No, just read them. This is the first statement that you gave to your wife:’I am perfectly okay,
what nonsense are you talking?’ That was six o’clock this morning. And at seven-thirty you told the
postmaster,’Yes, the night was a little disturbed.’ And then to Professor Nand Dulare Vajpeyel you
said,’I had a terrible night.’ These are your statements. Nothing has happened to you – you can get
up. There is no need to rest for three months, even three minutes are not needed: you are perfectly
okay.”
”But,” he said, ”I was perspiring and I was just going to fall.”
I said, ”There is nothing to it. It was Dhyananda who just jumped on you and made you fall and you
thought you were falling. He did it too well; I had not asked him to do that much and I had no idea
that he would do it so perfectly! So you get up.”
He immediately got up and he said, ”Really? That’s true: I was perfectly okay last night, and this
morning I was perfectly okay. When my wife spoke to me I simply said,’I am perfectly okay. What has
happened to you?’ But when everybody started asking... strangely I started feeling that something
was wrong. A small boy said,’Uncle your legs are wobbling,’ and I felt that certainly my legs were
wobbling, otherwise this child...?”
I said, ”This is the note from the child. These were all my men, women, children, Dhyananda, the
doctor.... I had to arrange this whole lot because I had accepted your challenge. I created the
sickness. I could have managed it for three months, you may have even died.”
He said, ”I cannot deny it. Seeing what has happened to me, it is possible that if I was in bed for
three months and you went on trying your propaganda, you could have killed me.”
I said, ”This is how your whole religion has been functioning: create problems in people’s mind and
then where have they to go? They have to go to the priest. Then the priest gives the solution – and
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