In 1965, Dr Keki Mistry, then in his twenties and just out of medical college, was looking forward to a rewarding career in orthodontics when he was diagnosed with a tumour in his throat.
In 1965, Dr Keki Mistry, then in his twenties and just out of medical college, was looking forward to a rewarding career in orthodontics when he was diagnosed with a tumour in his throat. His voice had been reduced to a painful whisper and he feared losing his voice. “Imagine me - a young man starting out in life. I was devastated, to say the least. I was wondering why it had happened to me,” says Mistry.
His family was not particularly religious and in the secular precincts of his home, god men and their miracles were seldom talked about.
Somebody gave him a photograph of Sathya Sai Baba to be passed on to another person. He accidentally kept it and some time later, somebody gave him a book on Sathya Sai Baba that he read. When the guru was visiting a minister’s house in Mumbai, Mistry went to meet him.
The meeting with the guru was brief but after the visit, the tumour had gone. “The tumour went away in an instant,” he says.
He looked for scientific explanations behind the tumour’s disappearance, but found no answers. “For a man of science, if a tumour disappears, it is an organic thing. You cannot be a man of science and talk about something you have not witnessed,” he says. “People said it was a coincidence. I felt it was a phenomena which I was introduced to.”
The eminent orthodontist, now 78, says that Sathya Sai Baba is like a friend; he even attended the navjote or religious initiation of his son. His family is grateful to the guru for curing him.
Mistry’s faith has endured the scandals that have rocked the Sathya Sai Trust, the attacks by rationalists and trust’s brushes with the law. “Believe me, there was no question of losing my faith. What happened to me was something like a fairy tale. If I had not been cured, I would not have been a believer,” he says.
“Sathya Sai Baba’s teaching is about the transformation of an individual. He tells us to be a good individual - a good Hindu, a good Christian, a good Parsi, or a good Muslim,” he adds.
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