A Hindu woman married to a Parsi, came to ask for my blessings for her three-year-old son who could not speak. I asked the woman : Is there anything to which you are very attached, something dear to you? The child’s mother replied : ‘Yes, chewing betel. With me it has become a compulsory habit.’ Give it up. Offer it to God as a sacrifice and pray for your son’s cure, I said. She did and three months later her son started to speak and slowly became normal.
