![]() So, I consented and he took us to the private room and, taking a sheet of paper, wrote something upon it and gave it over to one of us and made me sign it and keep it into the pocket of one of my companions. Of course I told him that I do not boast of any power of curing diseases but he said, 'That does not matter, only I want '. But he goes to his private room and immediately comes back and says to me that if I gave him some ashes to cure him of his fever he would consent to give us a seance. The young men with me of course were ready to pay down his fees. He said that some Europeans came to see with the Dewan of Mysore and that since then through their 'Dristee Dosham' he had got fever and that he could not give us a seance then and only if we paid him 10 Rs., he would consent to tell us our 'prasnas'. When we first saw him, the fellow was almost ferocious. But he wanted to know the author of that delivery. ![]() Another young man had one of his sisters-in-law given poison to, by some unknown hand, from which she recovered. These questions I determined upon, two days before going to this Govinda Chetty. ![]() The third was a test-question - a part of the Buddhistic mantra, in Tibetan tongue. My second was whether what my Guru had told me was right. Two months ago, I dreamt that my mother was dead and I was very anxious to know about her. He was said to tell about anything a man thinks of. I, with two other young men, went to see him. In the said village lives a man of the Chetty caste, generally passing for an astrologer. One - a very wonderful phenomenon I have seen in a village called Kumbakonam, and another about myself. 72999 The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Unpublished Swami Vivekananda MADRAS the 15th February
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