Science and technologies have advanced remarkably over the last century. But some cases of faith and miracles still make us speechless. Recently, a patient chanted shlokas from the holy book of Bhagavad Gita, while undergoing a complicated brain surgery at Zydus hospital in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
36 year old Dayaben Budhelia was diagnosed with a tumour in her brain. She was admitted in Zydus hospital in Ahmedabad for a surgery. But during her surgery, she opted to remain conscious. The surgeon operating on her advised her to keep talking, in order to monitor the condition of her brain during surgery. Dayaben, therefore asked for permission to recite shlokas from the Bhagavad Gita and kept softly chanting the verses till her surgery was over.
Speaking to Asian Voice, Neurosurgeon Dr Kalpesh Shah said, “I have done more than nine thousand open surgeries in the last 12 years. But this is the first case there was a patient chanting Gita verses during her operation. It took us about a quarter of an hour to remove the lump from her brain. All this time she was given local anaesthesia but she remained conscious. The position of the tumour was so delicate that there was a possibility of causing paralysis.”
Dayaben’s husband Bharatbhai is from a small village called Limda Haunubha in Bhavnagar district. At present the family is settled in Katargam, Surat. Speaking to the newsweekly, Bharatbhai said, “On 20th December 2020 we visited Zydus Hospital. On 22nd December my wife was admitted for her surgery. After a day, she was operated on and on 25th December 2020 the doctor discharged her.”
He added, “The whole family was terrified after hearing about the brain tumour. But we had full faith in God and it felt like he was standing beside us all through this surgery.”
Dayaben said that she learnt the verses of Bhagavad Gita from her parents in her childhood and strongly believes in God. She is proud to have passed her knowledge on to her children.
