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A WORLD OF EYES
m"Takc thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die" ( Sliakespearc) .
By: Dewan Sharar
The fame of Sadhu Ramdas was known far beyond Trimbakeshwar where near the Shankar's shrine his roughly-built hut of stones and branches propped itself against the mountain-side with every appearance of insecurity. Rich and poor alike used to come to him for healing; for Sadhu Ramdas had acquired the marvellous power of healing blindness.
It was no supernatural gift, but the result of research and experiment with the properties of herbs and berries and barks. Quite happily he led the existence of a hermit in that remote and lovely spot. He would accept no payment and desired no fame. The world held no temptation for him since he had never known the world. It began to be said of him, and with reason, that he was a saint.
On a day singled out by fate, there journeyed in his direction, from their home in Bombay, a very rich man Seth Nagar Chand and his motherless daughter Meenaxi.
Meenaxi was beautiful and gifted — she was a sweet singer and exquisite dancer — and had had all the advantages that her father's wealth could give her. But one thing he could not buy for her, though he would gladly have sacrificed all his possessions to do so. This was her sight. Meenaxi had been blind from her early childhood.
They came on a pilgrimage, to the sacred place of Pandav Dhara, these two; and there heard by chance, of the Sadhu and his gift of healing.
"We will go there at once", Nagar Chand decided. He was not very
Mr. K. Subramanyam looks as austere and dignified as Swami Vivekananda, in "Ananthasayanam", a Tamil picture.
sanguine, having had his hopes on that score raised and destroyed too often; but he would not leave a single avenue unexplored. Meenaxi was not hopeful at all.
But they set off ancf in the dewy freshness of the morning they reached the Sadhus hut. Nagar Chand had looked to see an unkempt, perhaps decrepit, old hermit, but to his surprise a young man, tall and upright and startingly handsome, came to greet them.
And he cured her of her blindness.
With the herbs and simples whereof he alone knew the secret, with ointments of his own compounding, and by the grace of the Gods in whom he placed his implicit faith, he accomplished that marvellous thing. Three weeks she spent with .her eyes closely bandaged, and at the end of that time, in her father's presence, Ramdas took the bandages away, and she saw.
She stood gazing all about her drinking in the miracle of sight again after sixteen long years. She saw the glowing loveliness of the Trimbakeshwar in the prime of the year. She raw her father's face and the yearning tenderness in his gaze. Wonder and joy surged up in her
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