Prayer

A bright sunny day, my mother comes and informs that we have to go to someone's place -- a 4 member family - the mother, father, elder brother and younger sister! The young girl currently being a Philadelphian student, the father is ill, cranky and unhappy, the mother being a mother is the anchor! The brother is blessed! As a child he went to school and played. Early teen brought him a disease called malaria which is treated with quite easiness in india only if diagnosed... Those were the last days which could tag him as a normal kid! He is now called "mentally n physically challenged" just because he knows nothing beyond his class 8 studies!
But still he talked, played, cared and prayed
Always he greeted us saying "ami kalke theke wait korchhi tomader" [ i am waiting for you since yesterday]
He shared that he prays to god twice a day! Morning he asks god to make him grow into a strong man and in the evening he prays for all the students in his special school so that they can go to office! Latter they shifted to another city with fresh environment! They could no more afford any treatment as the father got retired and younger sister was studying!
I have always been taught that prayer from a pure heart can change anything but never witnessed suchlike!
This time when we visited thier place we couldn't see him! The mother said that he went somewhere ans will be back in few minutes!
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We were engrossed in our chat when someone entered the room, seeing us he touched my mother's feet and greeted me! A tall, good-looking man wearing hectic-day-working clothes and a laptop bag with files hunched in it!
His mother said " ki chinte parchho? Eta subho!"
Subho is that blessed brother of the family!
Awestruck is an understatement to describe us at that time!
No further treatment, no counselling but only mighty prayers could defet science and medicine!
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Prayers, i learnt, was something that could give birth to laws and theorems as it encompassed everything beyomd man's intellect!