It’s an autobiography where the author has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and doctors declared that he had about six months left to live. He decides to try alternate therapies and comes to India, from US, looking for a solution. He finally lands up in Sevak, Gujrat and pursues the treatment coined as cowpathy. This is the story of his tough journey and how he finally managed to regain is health which he says is the highest priority item in his life. He is leading a vibrant life and helping and inspiring thousands through Healing Vaidya.
Growing in a Hindu family has always taught me to worship cow and I had heard numerous stories about the power of cow and her extracts be it doodh, gomutra or gobar. Growing in the age of fast pace technological advancement and living in a metro city with all the elements of a modern lifestyle, I never bothered to think or understand the healing capabilities of gomata. Author’s experience helped me connect a lot of dots and restore my faith in the ancient Indian medicine, philosophy and culture. Honestly, all the stories I have been listening from childhood, still, seems too good to be true or believable but at least I am ready to look at it again, with fresh perspective, with paradigm shifted, with faith and belief. Author’s intention behind choosing the title as “Holy Cancer” shows that the cowpathy was a key element in presenting him a new life free from cancer. It’s amazing and just unbelievable to see how panchgavya – doodh, gomutra, gobar, dahi and ghee – is used as the magical medicine for healing. For the curious lot they can search about the hospital its philosophy and further details on the internet. Here’s a url to get them started This Hospital Claims to Cure Cancer With the Help of Cows.
Interestingly, for me there were other elements in his autobiography that caught my attention. As the author himself agrees that it was cowpathy coupled with few more elements that finally gave him a new life. He has himself mentioned that not all his acquaintances, who happened to be his friends later, managed to be blessed with a new life. He was one of the lucky ones to be blessed with a new life. What were those elements that turned into blessing? Author never identified them or pointed them in his story but you can easily find them everywhere – his belief, mindset, faith, meditation, yoga, mantra and exercise! When you see author’s routine in Haasilgaon, it constitutes the start of day in brahama muhurt with yoga and meditation. With his routine that included, cowpathy, running, vegetarian diet and living with the cycle of sun, you can easily spot all those elements. Author doesn’t endorses it and makes it look so beautiful as he mentions all of these as a part of his story. He has even devoted a section of the book to put Namokar Mantra that he recites daily. Again, he never endorses it but mentions it in his story that makes it so complete.
When you read the autobiography, it looks like the story of one of us, filled with fear, anxiety and struggle. He has the same challenges of managing finances, uncertain future, rejection from relatives, loosing parents and yet he keeps his faith. When he has no where to go, Mohanlalji offers to help him and invites him to live with him in a village. It is this place where he lived for more than a year practiced his cowpathy and recovered. Isn’t Mohanlalji the messenger of God? He is still here as a common man. The author is still here, inspiring thousands. They are here in flesh and blood but I see the manifestation of God in them. This is not a story that happened in Treta or Dwapar but just 5 years ago.
I personally think it is not a story, only for those, who seek an answer for cancer but for those who want to lead a life to a higher dimension and seek inspiration from common man story. Those who wish to see how faith, discipline, yoga, meditation and gomata can lead you to a divine life echoing the sound from Upnishad “… mritorma amritam gamaya“, must read it.