His (Yogananda's) younger sister Nalini was sick with blood dysentry, when he was in Japan. After returning, he took up her treatment.
"...I began to move heaven and earth with my prayers. ..."
But Dr. Bose shook his head mournfully. "She simply has no more blood left to shed."
"She will recover," I replied stoutly. "In seven days her fever will be gone."
A week later I was thrilled to see Nalini open her eyes and gaze at me with loving recognition
Though she recouped, her legs were paralysed. Now, it is the turn of Guru Yukteswar to cure her without even seeing her. Yogananda went to Guru Yukteswar and sought his blessings.
"... The incessant war for her life which I had waged by prayer had
exhausted me. I went to Serampore to ask Sri Yukteswar's help. His eyes expressed deep sympathy as I told him of Nalini's plight. ..."
"... Your sister's legs will be normal at the end of one month." He added, "Let her wear, next to her skin, a band with an unperforated two-carat pearl, held on by a clasp. ..."
"... "Sir," I inquired, "is this an astrological analysis? You do not know her birth day or hour."
Sri Yukteswar smiled. "There is a deeper astrology, not dependent on the testimony of calendars and clocks. Each man is a part of the Creator, or Cosmic Man; he has a heavenly body as well as one of earth. The human eye sees the physical form, but the inward eye penetrates more profoundly, even to the universal pattern of which each man is an integral and individual part. ... "
"... I returned to Calcutta and purchased a pearl for Nalini. A month later, her paralyzed legs were completely healed. ..."
