TEXT 51
cikitsa karena yare ha-iya sadaya
deha-roga bhava-roga,--dui tara ksaya
SYNONYMS
cikitsamedical treatment; karenadid; yareupon whom; ha-iyabecoming; sadayamerciful; deha-rogathe disease of the body; bhava-rogathe disease of material existence; duiboth; tarahis; ksayadiminished.
TRANSLATION
As Murari Gupta treated his patients, by his mercy both their bodily and spiritual diseases subsided.
PURPORT
Murari Gupta could treat both bodily and spiritual disease because he was a physician by profession and a great devotee of the Lord in terms of spiritual advancement. This is an example of service to humanity. Everyone should know that there are two kinds of diseases in human society. One disease, which is called adhyatmika, or material disease, pertains to the body, but the main disease is spiritual. The living entity is eternal, but somehow or other, when in contact with the material energy, he is subjected to the repetition of birth, death, old age and disease. The physicians of the modern day should learn from Murari Gupta. Although modern philanthropic physicians open gigantic hospitals, there are no hospitals to cure the material disease of the spirit soul. The Krsna consciousness movement has taken up the mission of curing this disease, but people are not very appreciative because they do not know what this disease is. A diseased person needs both proper medicine and a proper diet, and therefore the Krsna consciousness movement supplies materially stricken people with the medicine of the chanting of the holy name, or the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, and the diet of prasada. There are many hospitals and medical clinics to cure bodily diseases, but there are no such hospitals to cure the material disease of the spirit soul. The centers of the Krsna consciousness movement are the only established hospitals that can cure man of birth, death, old age and disease.

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