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An incident where the sick is cured at a temple in Panagoda which is being publicised has been released as a video footage over the internet these days. The person who attends to hundreds of disabled people assembled at the temple approaches the disabled and touches them from head to toes for a few seconds and instantly those who were unable to walk then get up on their feet and

We who cared to delve into this scenario made our way there under the courtesy of the Panagoda Army Camp and were able to observe, as reported, of how this person who visits the camp temple locality and carries out his miraculous task without charging any money whatsoever from the patients who come there and even goes to the extent of providing tea and other refreshments at his own expense to those who come from afar.

It was reported that this miracle man is a Sri Lankan and is someone who lives in Australia and that he would visit the said temple only every Saturday for this purpose. Though the miracle is performed at the temple grounds without any religious discrimination, this service is named as 'Divine service of curing the sick' and since the activity is conducted with a blend of Catholic characteristics it nevertheless has led to certain criticisms over the internet.

We were able to get at newspaper announcements about this phenomenon and we found that what is mentioned there is a request from those participating to come prepared at 5 in the evening, attired in white, bringing along offerings of flowers ready to perform Bohi Pooja and that this task which is so performed brings merit to the gods as well as to us ... also that this service is free of religious discrimination and monetary commitments too. It is also mentioned there that in the same way there is also no yanthra manthra, medicinal or treatment for fractures involved and free of advisory services.

During the past there were hundreds of quacks who indulged in performing bogus miracles similar to miracles of this nature and thus duped the public of their money and most people have tended to look at this process in a squint-eyed way. Whatever it is, if at all those who are unable to walk are given the ability to walk ... it then is by itself a great act of merit. This video which is worthy of one's attention, from below