Savita moved away from her Hindu family in the south of India to study law in New Delhi. She got a room in a boarding house near the campus. 

After only a few weeks, her landlady fell ill with an incurable disease. 

The landlady's son had a job that was so oppressive that he complained bitterly about it; but jobs were hard to find. What could he do? 

The landlady's daughter was so severely mistreated by her husband that she left him and came back to live at the boarding house with her sick mom. The daughter was so upset over the relationship with her husband that she had to take medicine for depression. 

The boarding house was shrouded with gloom. Savita stayed at the University late into the evening to avoid the depressing atmosphere. Hinduism teaches that karma causes these sufferings and one's karma cannot be changed. 

After three months, strange things started to happen at the boarding house; things that could not be explained by science or Hinduism. The landlady overcame her incurable disease and could be heard singing. Doctors came, visited her, and left baffled. 

The son was fired; then hired to a job he loved. 

The daughter divorced her husband, got on with her life, and no longer needed medications. 

Savita was amazed and intensely curious. The gloomy boarding house became filled with joy. There were many pieces to a puzzle, but none of the pieces fit. Then one day, the landlady explained that she had started to chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo a few weeks earlier and that by chanting she was able to change her karma. 

Savita said, "Karma cannot be changed!" 

The landlady said, "Look at me. Look at my son. Look at my daughter. We are proof that karma can be changed." 

After reading a book called The Buddha in Daily Life, everything made sense and Savita began chanting to study law in America, based on the actual proof that she had seen in her landlady. 

Savita is now proving that karma can be changed. Her father and brother came to visit her here in America where she is studying law. 

She told her story at World Peace Gongyo.