[Advaita-l] Prayers for health, spiritual and corporal

[Divya Shiva]

This is a prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes that I recite to Her idol placed in
the inner threshold of our home. It is decades old and was placed there by
our former landlady, and depicts the sight of St. Bernadette communicating
with the Mother, kneeling in prayer:

"Oh ever immaculate Virgin, Mother of Mercy, Health of the Sick, Refuge of
Sinners, Comfortess of the Afflicted, you know my wants, my troubles, my
sufferings. Look upon me with mercy. When you appeared in the grotto of
Lourdes, you made it a privileged sanctuary where you dispense your favors,
and where many sufferers have obtained the cure of their infirmities, both
spiritual and corporal. I come, therefore, with unbounded confidence to
implore your maternal intercession. My loving Mother, obtain my request. I
will try to imitate your virtues so that I may one day share your company
and bless you in eternity.

Amen."

Ever so poignantly and beautifully, the Oneness makes itself evident, as I
recite the following immediately after:

वालाम्बिकेश वैद्येश भवरोगहरेति च
जपेन्नामत्रयं नित्यं महारोगनिवारणम्