CHAPTER XVI REJUVENATION OF MEDICOS POWER: NMO SPREADS NATIONWIDE AGAIN

Chapter XVI

Rejuvenation OF MEDICOS POWER: NMO SPREADS NATIONWIDE AGAIN

            In fact, nobody was following me. We all were followers of the same ideal. The whole controversy was pathetic. Yet, it needed a serious blow to have an end. When I knew the developments, I remembered, P. P. Guruji’s (M. S. Golwalkar) famous proclamation,  “If everything crumbles down, I will begin from the beginning.” But, I had no such spiritual power. I asked Prabhat, the most sincere worker of Darbhanga, whether he would work with me, if a fresh move would be taken up. He assured me that he would follow me.

            Subsequently, an emergency convention of the General Body of the NMO was held at Darbhanga on 30.9.1985, under the presidentship of Dr. Pramod Kumar Tiwari. It was resolved that the NMO would work freely, dedicated to the nation as before. Medicos’ power was rejuvenated. Sweets, actually meant for my MD results, took   a better meaning on being distributed after the meeting.

            But it was not without an aftermath. The programme of blood donation to be held on Gandhi-Shastri Jayanti, was threatened by them. However, it could be held by the intervention of the local Sangh workers. It reminded me of an episode of the Ranchi unit of the NMO, which had been synonymous with blood donation (as Darbhanga was for the symposium). In its first blood donation programme, the AIMF people had disturbed it when Prof. Surendera Sinha had come out saying nobody could be wicked than one who disturbed a pious programme like blood donation, which might be arranged by anyone.

            Pramod, Dharmanand and I went to Rajgir to meet the seniors of the Sangh.      Dr. Abaji Thatte listened to us. With his introductory letter, the medicos, mostly from the Ranchi unit toured all over the country propagating the NMO. The Ranchi unit ratified our resolution immediately. Later on, the Bhagalpur unit too joined us, once the controversy was over.

             We met at Jamshedpur during Dec. 6-7, 1986 and declared it as the fourth National Conference of the NMO, under the saintly guidance of Prof. S. J. Kale. Convener of the conference Indrajeet and his friends like B.N. Roy, Mahesh, etc., being fully backed by their Ranchi friends like Vijay Raj, Satish, Suhash, etc. proved themselves to the satisfaction of the dignitaries like Ma. Bhaskar Rao, Dr. B. N. Das Gupta, Dr. B. B. Tripathy (Cuttack), Dr. N. N. Khanna (Varanasi), Dr. Sujit Dhar (Kolkata), etc. that the young medicos had yet creative power.

Fig. 21 — Workers of the NMO, DMC with the NMO, President Dr. Sujit Dhar at Jamshedpur, at the IV National Conference of the NMO, on 7.12.1986.

Fig. 22 — Mrs. Radha Singh, IAS, inaugurating X Anniversary Celebrations of the NMO at Ranchi on 24.12.1987.

            Radha Singh, IAS, the chief guest, was so thrilled that she announced the NMO as her own organisation and later its registration could be possible only by her personal efforts. Dr. H. P. Sinha, ex-principal of the MGM Medical College, Jamshedpur wished to spend the last part of his life for the NMO. Dr. Sujit Dhar came as an observer and took the reins of the organisation as the National President. Ma. Bhaskar Rao again came to guide us at the Bhagalpur conference. Ma. Madan Das also congratulated us.

Fig. 23 _ Dr. Suhash Tetarway (extreme L.), Dr. Ksh. Birendra Singh (extreme R.) and on his side Dr. Satish Kr. Midha conducting a medical quiz in the Bhagalpur Conference on 1.4.1988.

Fig. 24_ NMO workers of Bhagalpur with Ma. Dr. Abaji Thatte (3rd from L.),  Ma. Shrishankar  Tiwari (1st from R.), and Ma. Bhaskar Rao (2nd from R.) during  the V National Conference of the NMO at Bhagalpur on April 1, 1988.

            The purpose of this narration, in no sense, is meant to malign anyone. What I feel, on my part, is that I lacked the art of communication and, therefore, I am taking up all the blames on my shoulders. At the same time, the success in overcoming the riddles of the controversies belongs largely to the younger medicos whose dedicated and selfless service alone could create admirers like Ma. Dr. Abaji Thatte, Ma. Bhaskar Rao and Ma. Shrishankar Tiwari and many others in the medical and social fields.

            Every organisation faces teething trouble in the beginning because it is made up of human minds, so subtle in nature and if it is controlled, you will go to samadhi, hardly having any interest in the worldly affairs. And such brittle differences, unfortunately take bigger shapes.

            Whether my peer Mrityunjoy was not well-communicated with my ideas or younger Sushil, Pawan, Hari and Deoranjan were not flexible or the successors of Mahesh Sharma of the ABVP could not appreciate the finer aspects of the problem, are not the points at all, as they all worked with their utmost sincerity for the NMO and the nation and I still owe to them much reverence for the zeal, they all had and they have still respect for me. It is merely the kal chakra! One can say only that we are all one as we were one. I welcome them all to the NMO folds, if anyone still stands ashore.

            We lacked probably guidance from our seniors for long and another conclusion is that the sentiments should be honoured and not weighed by mere hefty arguments. What is going to happen tomorrow is not predictable and any conjecture may have no end. For the NMO rather everything seemed to have ended well.

            For me, however, in my personal life, I will hide some truths, lest readers should become tearful. Truly this had been for   a great mission. I would be but a sinner, in case, I hate any fellow worker though he might have even abused me.

            Maybe, God was planning for the good or is still planning well for me, in my personal life as well as for the NMO. While thinking over the past few lines I had typed, the postman dropped an envelope having in it the divine message of His Holiness Swami Chinmayanada, which he wrote himself from Indore, on 14th November 1989. The message was:

            “National Medicos Organisation is an answer to a very urgent need in the country. I congratulate you all and wish the Organisations help from all charitable Trusts and liberal donors.

            The Organisation can consider itself as NAMO and not as NMO. It sounds as ‘NAMO’ and has a significant meaning. Love.”

  

            This was in response to a letter and literature of the NMO, which I had personally handed over to him on 10th November 1989 at Ranchi, on conclusion of his week-long Gita and Upanishad classes, which I had attended.

            How the great men change the meanings! Not long back, I had chided Suhash for writing Namo with some other workers on registers in lighter vein (he had even printed it, in Hindi, so, while thanking advertisers in the souvenir, published for the Gwalior conference, had to be corrected before being dispatched). I also remember, Om Prakash used to say in the days of 1980-82, ‘Non Medicos Organisation’ for the NMO. I wish some day it may so happen that some saint would say, “There is no need of medicine or medicos as everybody is healthy on physical, mental and spiritual planes,” and then it would be better called as Om Prakash used to say lightly. Sorry, he also used to abbreviate its Hindi translation jk"Vªh; vk;qfoZKku Nk= laxBu as RA.A.CHA.S. ¼jk{kl½-

            The divine message of H.H. Swami Chinmayananda reverberates as the blessings of Acharya Vinoba Bhave written in his own handwriting on the 23rd Jan. 1981, at Pawnar, which is:

              

                                                       

                                                                                                (11.9.1895-15.11.1982)

Fig. 25 — Divine Message from Acharya Vinoba Bhave.

            When medicos’ power rejuvenated, I think, on some medicos’ advice, I also did a good work i.e. marriage on the same date, eight years later Ramnandan Mishra had quoted to me Vinoba’s saying, “If you are in a fix whether to marry or not, you should.” I could obey him only due to the rejuvenation of the NMO.