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Chapter 31: Blood On Indian Soil

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On Monday, 25 November 1957, Meheru Damania and Burjor Mehta were married in Ahmednagar. Nariman and Kaka Baria came from Meherazad, and Padri, Vishnu, Don, Sidhu and Jangle from Meherabad.
On the 29th morning, the couple came to Meherazad in their wedding clothes, where Baba blessed them and urged them, "Both of you hold fast to my daaman."
Baba held a meeting at Meherazad on Wednesday, 27 November 1957 to give his decision about the upcoming sahavas congregation. Harry Kenmore was also present.
Baba stated:
I am very pleased with Harry, both with his love for me and his skill as a doctor. He knows his job 100 percent, and he has helped in my work by helping my body to the extent he has. He has done his best with satisfactory results. But the condition in the hip joint is very bad, and he knows, as I have said all along, that I will not be able to walk about again as before. He says, and I know, that if he had come some months ago, I would now be walking about normally. But that was not ordained. My accident is no "accident," and it all comes to one thing: what I wanted has happened, and what I want will happen.
The continuous pain was a distraction to my work, hence the arrival of Harry Kenmore, who has helped greatly. He has adjusted my body to structural balance, and I am now able to stand erect with good posture for the first time since the accident. To hold this structural balance, he has advised great care for about a year and utmost precautions while giving darshan and sahavas. There should be no strain to my body, and I must avoid fatigue and refrain from movements causing exertion, such as handing prasad to large numbers as I do during darshans, or being garlanded and embraced by them. I have agreed to follow his advice during the darshans I will give in Poona and Bombay in December and thereafter.
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