It was an afternoon in August. The sky was clear and the sun was setting. Its reddish rays scattered all over the sky. Sri Sri Thakur was talking with the devotees. Sailen Bhattacharyada, Pyari Nandida, Sushil Asuda, Ajoy Gangulida and others were sitting around Him.
Dr. Ian Stevenson had come to India from America. He was the head of the department of psychiatry of the University of Virginia and had come to meet with Sri Sri Thakur. Mr. Spencer who is residing in Deoghar also had come with him and sat on a bench in front of Sri Sri Thakur. Sudhapanima, after having prepared the tobacco, gave the water pipe to Sri Sri Thakur. Sri Sri Thakur with a smiling face asked Mr. Stevenson, “May I smoke?”
Dr. Stevenson became somewhat embarrassed and said, “Yes, please do.”
As Sri Sri Thakur drew in the smoke, the water pipe bubbled.
Dr. Stevenson, looking at it with surprise for some time, then said with a smile, “It is a hubble-bubble, a very nice system.”
Sri Sri Thakur smiled and, holding the water pipe, said, “In this way one gets the chance to smoke tobacco more comfortably.”
Sri Sri Thakur’s words were being translated. Some English messages of Sri Sri Thakur were being read to Dr. Stevenson by Nikhilda. There was a message:
“Psychiatrists are those who know the psychical functions of one’s mental flow with its physical active adjustment to find out the knots of one’s mental faculty with physical and functional adjustment by which one stays in a correct form or in a diseased condition, and is able to set them in a correct flow, overcoming his functional disturbances as well;
loving interested attitude, so that the patient becomes normally interested and eagerly adhered to the psychiatrist, and the diagnosis of the functional knot in the system, with his physical condition and treatment of the patient accordingly, sometimes with medicines if necessary, are the main things in psychiatry by which a patient can get back his normal health, physical as well as mental;
a psychiatrist thus deals accordingly with the necessities of the patient with adjustment of functional attributes by which the patient can grow normally, according to his inner throb of life.” (Sri Sri Thakur: The Message Vol. 8, page 263)
Dr. Stevenson was very pleased to hear the messages and said, “Where do these come from? Nice! I think psychiatrists are those who try to learn.”
Sri Sri Thakur said emphatically, “I say psychiatrists are those who know, as one can know through learning only.”
Dr. Stevenson, “Do you remember your past life?”
Sri Sri Thakur (looking towards Susilda and others), “ I have already said this to you.”
Dr. Stevenson, “Have they all been verified? Also, how can one know whether one speaks correctly or incorrectly on that subject?”
Sri Sri Thakur, “The fundamental sign is this, whether there is any adjustment and coordination in his movements and words.” (To be continued)
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