We started out the morning feeling completely refreshed and energized to continue with our Saranagati session! We only had a few days left to finish the book! Unfortunately Dina was still feeling really sick, but she wanted to do them anyway, so we went to Yamuna's and Dina's and did them there. They were still really sweet and beautiful, just a small group of us this time.
We ended a bit early also because Yamuna wanted to take Dina to see this Ayurvedic doctor, who was reportedly extremely good if a bit eccentric. Yamuna had gone to see him a few days back and he had given her some pills and she had immediately felt better. We decided that we would all go see this person, and see what he could do for us. Yamuna had warned us that he was a rather odd fellow (to be polite). Dina had a 1:00 appointment, but Yamuna thought we had better call to make sure that he was there, last time she had to wait for like 2 hours for him to get there. We decided to go anyway, after calling and hearing him say he was on the way, we ended up having to wait almost an hour anyway. When we finally went into his office we could see that no one was exaggerating about him. Definitely an interesting/strange personality. His office was tiny, and about as clean as an old tool shed. Everyone just sits there with you as he takes your pulse and tells you all about your personal problems, in front of everyone and anyone, absolutely no privacy. If anyone comes by, or if anything goes by the door, or even if there is nothing there to distract, he will still ignore you half the time, or talk to everyone else, or just look out the window.
Dina went first and he took her pulse, asked everyone else a bunch of questions that had nothing to do with Dina, and finally said she had amoebas. He was also supposedly really good at reading the palm, and so we asked him to do that as well. He didn't say too much about Dina's except that she was going to live a very long life, and a few other things. Then it was Kar's turn, he took Kar's pulse and said he had poor digestion, and asthma from allergies. When he read Kar's palm he actually said a lot of super nice things, about how he was a good devotee, he would have lots of money, houses, cars, land, 2 sons, a nice wife (just like Indian...), and so on. Of course all this was going to happen in 4 years, we tried hard not to start laughing. Then he took my pulse, and said I was passing out protein in urine (don't look it up, it's pretty bad), and I was tired all the time, my hair was falling out, my face was breaking out, etc. Then he said my heart was beating like "red". (What? Isn't every one's heart red?) We asked him what that meant, and he just said again and again "Like RED!" Finally some Indian devotee figured out he was saying rat, and he was like "Yes, red! Like the one I have pet in back room, oh there he is!".. and this fat rat came running from the back room across the floor and out the door, or wall, or wherever he gets in and out. By then my heart was definitely beating like rat! He read my palm and once again didn't have much to say about it, said I would have 2 sons, but no daughters, would have one by next year, said he would be a gift of Radharani's mercy and I should name him diamond, (didn't say I was like a nice Indian wife), and then he was ready to give us our medicines.
Dina and Yamuna left then because Dina was starting to feel really sick again, so we stayed and waited for our medicine. I think we waited for another hour, while he was talking to everyone else again, or just looking out the window, and finally he gave us the medicine. Kar's supposedly had everything in it, gold, silver, iron, diamonds, etc.. and mine, who knows, they were about the size of bullets and completely black and rough. I was supposed to take them twice a day with another pill, and he gave me some yellow powder to put on my face at night. Kar had some pink pills, and some powder to drink every night. All for three months and then we would be cured. Dina's medicine came in little packets of newspaper. We were a little nervous about it, but decided to try it out anyway.
Finally we got back around 3, pretty starving and tired, feeling a little strange and weirded out. After lunch we did some fun shopping for Krsna and Balaram, checked our emails, and had our wonderful evening kirtans. That night we tried our new medicines, mine scratched my throat all the way down to my tummy, Kar said his tasted like Vrindavan dust, but we were feeling a little excited. Maybe this doctor was Krsna's mercy and we really would be completely cured in 3 months. I even put the yellow powder on my face that night,(Kar was kind enough to say that I looked like I fell into a cow patty), although I had a sneaking suspicion that it would dye my face yellow the next day. All in all it was a very different day then we were used to, but we were super excited about tomorrow! It was Srila Bhaktisiddhanta's Disappearance Day, and it was the 33rd Anniversary Appearance Day of Sri Sri Radha Banabehari! Danudhara Swami was going to take us to one of the most incredible and amazing places in all of Vrindavan, Terra Kadamba, the place were Srila Rupa Goswami wrote the Nectar of Devotion, and where Krsna and Radha would meet. It's right in between Nandagram and Varsana. We couldn't wait to go see it!
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