Emergency in the cowshed

It is said that prarabdha (that part of your karma that cannot be altered) follows you wherever you go. Being an obstetrician, I tried to escape from my hectic medical practice to my guru’s ashram, the Swami Rama Sadhak Grama in Rishikesh. But guess what? The mother of all mothers, a beloved cow named Kapila, was in trouble. She had delivered a female calf and had pushed the uterus out too.

I had never seen anything like this. A 20 kg mass that looked like a watermelon turned inside out lay beside her …