The Suryamal ashram and its free Sunday camps
In 1994 Dr. Lajpatrai Mehra opened a Neurotherapy (LMNT) ashram at Suryamal, a tribal village in Mokhada taluka, Maharashtra. Its free Sunday camp, its residential training academy and later its small hospital carried the therapy to people who had nowhere else to go.
Overview
What moved Guruji was a sight he saw again and again: villagers who could not afford even the bus fare to the nearest health centre. So in 1994 an ashram was built at Suryamal, a village in the tribal belt of Mokhada taluka, Maharashtra, where neither a doctor nor medicine was available for miles around.
Every Sunday a free treatment camp runs there, with free food for those who travel far, and it continues to this day. People come from the nearby hamlets and from towns across Maharashtra. Because the camp runs only on Sundays, the region calls the ashram the Sunday Dispensary. More than thirty thousand patients were treated there in its first fifteen years.
In 1999 a residential academy opened at the ashram, so that young people could learn the therapy and serve their own villages. Teaching and lodging are free, and only a small amount is taken for food. Every student must write at least one case study for the research library. From then on Dr. Mehra came to be called Guruji.
In 2010 a small residential hospital, the Arogya-Mandir, began with four beds and grew to thirty-seven the next year. Students now treat patients in its wards under senior therapists before going home to open their own centres.
Key points
- The ashram opened in 1994 in a tribal village in Mokhada taluka, Maharashtra.
- A free treatment camp with free food runs there every Sunday.
- The 1999 academy teaches free, so villagers can serve their own areas.
- The Arogya-Mandir hospital grew from four beds to thirty-seven.
Go deeper
The Man Who Would Not Accept 'Incurable': The Life of Dr. Lajpatrai Mehra
The life of Dr. Lajpatrai Mehra
The Hand That Heals: What Neurotherapy (LMNT) Is
What the therapy he built actually is
Cerebral palsy (CP)
Cerebral palsy, often seen at the ashram hospital
Paralysis and stroke
Paralysis, among the hospital's main patients
Low back pain
Back pain, a common complaint at the camps
Taking a Patient's Story: The History That Cannot Mislead
Taking a history that does not mislead
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This topic is part of: The Man Who Would Not Accept 'Incurable': The Life of Dr. Lajpatrai Mehra
Safety: when it is held back
- During any stay or camp, whatever treatment the patient already receives continues. Neurotherapy (LMNT) works alongside it, never instead of it.
Guruji says
“My work is its own reward. In the time I would spend daily maintaining written records to justify such a claim, I can bring relief to another quarter million people.”
This page explains what a Neurotherapy (LMNT) treatment is for; it is not a self-treatment guide and does not diagnose. Neurotherapy (LMNT) works alongside your medical care — keep taking the medicines your doctor prescribed.