<p>The wailing cry of 2 hungry cows resonated from an unkempt and broken shed in a remote rural corner of the Narayanpur village in Saran district of Bihar. A little boy could not take it anymore, he had to do something.</p>
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<p><em>&ldquo;What the heck grandpa! Why do you not feed your cows,&rdquo;</em></p>
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<p>- asked the angry boy to the melancholy old man with the betel-leaf-stained teeth, who sat nearby sadly gaping at nothing.</p>
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<p><em>&ldquo;Son, how could I feed them, when I can&rsquo;t see you even,&rdquo;</em></p>
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<p>- said the old man while tears rolled down his white marble-like cloudy eyes.</p>
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<p>Till just 2 years back, 65-year-old Lakshman Ray was leading a simple rural life, happily selling the milk of his 2 cows to earn a living.</p>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Lakshman Ray 10.png" alt="Lakshman after cataract surgery" width="800" height="533" /></p>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Lakshman Ray 9.png" alt="Lakshman Ray from Bihar" width="800" height="533" /></p>
<p>Sadly, <strong>he started to lose his vision due to cataracts in both his eyes.</strong></p>
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<p>It did not take long for Lakshman&rsquo;s world to turn upside down.</p>
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<h3>With no wife, children or relative there was no one to take care of the old man, who was just learning to live the life of a blind.</h3>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Lakshman Ray 2.png" alt="Lakshman after eye surgery" width="800" height="533" />&nbsp;</p>
<p>Stumbling around in a dark world, when all around him there was light, Lakshman could no longer arrange for his own food, leave alone feeding his cows.</p>
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<h4>He became completely dependent on the mercy of other villagers to feed him and his cows. Soon the little money that he had saved was also gone.</h4>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Lakshman Ray 3.png" alt="Lakshman with cataracts" width="800" height="533" />&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now Lakshman sat all alone in front of the cowshed, while his two hungry cows kept on wailing, and the little boy intervened. <strong>After hearing and realising why Lakshman was unable to feed the cows, the boy shared with the old man a piece of information that would change his life.</strong></p>
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<p><em>&ldquo;Well grandpa, don&rsquo;t sit around here, come with me. An eye hospital by the name of Akhand Jyoti, is organising a free eye camp in the next village. I came to know about this when I went there with my father yesterday. I am sure the Doctor&rsquo;s there would help you,&rdquo;</em></p>
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<p>- said the little boy taking Lakshman&rsquo;s hands into his and leading the old man away to the eye camp in the next village.</p>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Lakshman Ray 4.png" alt="Lakshman with cataracts" width="800" height="533" />&nbsp;</p>
<p>At the eye camp Lakshman heard that Akhand Jyoti was Eastern India&rsquo;s largest Eye Hospital and among the top 5 in India, which did around 75,000 sight-restoring surgeries annually, 80% of which was done for free for poor patients.</p>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Lakshman Ray 5.png" alt="Lakshman after developing cataracts" width="800" height="533" />&nbsp;</p>
<h4>Identified as a bilateral cataract patient Lakshman&rsquo;s case was given priority.</h4>
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<p>Then on a later date, Akhand Jyoti organised to pick him up from his village and bring him to its base hospital at Mastichak.</p>
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<h3>Here Lakshman got back his vision through a successful surgery of his right eye, done completely free of cost.</h3>
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<p>After surgery Lakshman was dropped back to his village, where he was greeted by the little boy.</p>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Lakshman Ray 1.png" alt="Lakshman in his village in Bihar" width="800" height="533" /></p>
<p>Lakshman went running and picked up the boy in his arms. Looking straight into his eyes the old man said,</p>
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<p><em>&ldquo;Son, no more will my cows remain hungry, no more will anyone have to hear their wailing cries.&rdquo;</em></p>
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<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Lakshman Ray 6.png" alt="Lakshman after cataract surgery" width="800" height="533" /></p>
<p><img src="https://www.akhandjyoti.org/public/backend/assets/img/blog-image/Lakshman Ray 7.png" alt="Lakshman feeding his cow" width="800" height="533" /></p>