68. Even In Extreme Sickness, Doctorjee Saw Swayamsevaks First:

In 1938, Doctorjee was extremely sick with a very high fever. The physician treating him had strictly forbidden anybody from even speeking to Doctorjee - so great was Doctorjee's weakness. Yet, typically, most Swayamsevaks had no idea about this, since Doctorjee did not like to arouse sympathy for himself.

Soon, the treating physician realized that it was futile to stop Doctorjee from meeting with Swayamsevaks who came to see him. The physician tried to keep these meetings brief, as best as he could.

Completely unaware of the seriousness of the illness, we (a group of Swayamsevaks) went to meet Doctorjee. After we reached his room, we suddenly realized that he was in an extremely serious, critical state. His eyes were shut in a comatose fatigue, he could barely breath, lying on his back. We decided to quietly just have his "Darshan" (see him) and close the door silently and to return home. Accordingly, after seeing him, we quietly said a prayer in our minds and began to go away.

However, the sound of the door closing in a barely audible manner nonetheless awoke Doctorjee. He asked the nurse-in-charge (a swayamsevak): "Did some Swayamsevaks come to see me just now? Where are they? Why did you not wake me up? Who were they?" The swayamsevak nurse hesitated to answer. Doctorjee said impatiently: "Please go and bring them back. They will not have gone too far away. Please go, now?"

The nurse-swayamsevak came running to us, and we returned to Doctorjee's room. Even though, clearly he was too far deteriorated, Doctorjee's face broke out into a broad smile when he saw us. He spoke with us for a few minutes. At the end he said: "I was too exhausted a few minutes ago. Now that I have seen you, all my fatigue has totally disappeared." He was smiling when we left.

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