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Sunday, May 17, 1992 turns out to be a good day despite Priya Nath’s misgivings and imagined horrors regarding Shri Nathji’s health, especially the dread of the breathlessness and suffocation attacks, which he had witnessed in 1987 and 1991. Shri Nathji had the breathless feeling on May 13, 1992 and again on May 14, 1992 but felt something rising in the left side of the chest. “O Lord, I am terribly scared that these symptoms may arise again.” Priya Nath prays:“O Lord, Thou art still there to save us – like Thou saved us from the horrors of the prostate and the dwindling urine stream.”Shri Nathji’s Persian Verse echoes in Priya Nath’s mind:“Kushtgaane khanjare tasleem raa“For Those who have submitted themselves to His Will,Shri Nathji is sitting in His bedroom armchair, reading the ‘Indian Express’ in the morning. He has finished taking the vegetable pulp consisting of carrots, tomatoes and the like. Priya Nath is about to give Him the vegetable soup that goes with it.“Piyaji, kahaan baitth kar sun naa hai?”“Piyaji where must I sit and listen?”The early morning had been bad as he had lots of gas in the stomach and had lost all appetite – not even taking his morning tea. But appetite was restored to normal after He had taken a tablet of Domstal, when He took some curd and then the vegetable pulp.