India, July 12 -- Swami Chinmayanandaji once narrated the following:

While in the U.S., he was requested to come and bless a devotee. When he visited her, he found that she had recently given birth to a daughter, but in the process she had become permanently paralysed from the waist down.

She wished to speak to Swamiji privately. She told him that she did not want to ruin the lives of her husband and daughter. Her husband was young and was not earning enough to afford a caregiver for her, while he also had to go to work.

She therefore requested Swamiji to tell her husband to marry again. She said that she and the baby could return to India, where help would be easier to find. There did not seem to be any other practical solution. Very ...