“There is no healing in this material world”–SP
April 25, 2017 in Articles by Damaghosa dasa
Hare Krsna
Below is a conversation by Srila Prabhupada with a scientist who has a hard time understanding that there is no healing possible in this material world. Unless one understands that any so called “advancement” we make here, be it healing or whatever, is only temporary and not really solving our real problem, then we will continue to remain within the confines of samsara, or repeated birth death old age and disease. How can you be really “healed” if these problems persist -life after life? Making our plans for solving disease, old age or even death are like moving a load of rocks from one shoulder to the other shoulder and then thinking, “ahh now my left shoulder, without the rocks feels much better ! ” This is insanity and why Srila Prabhupada tells us that no sane man can live here in this world. The problem is-unless one is somewhat Krsna Conscious, he or she cannot even understand that this place is meant for suffering. It is a prison house not a vacation resort
damaghosa das
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BG 2.51 purport–Owing to ignorance, one does not know that this material world is a miserable place where there are dangers at every step. Out of ignorance only, less intelligent persons try to adjust to the situation by fruitive activities, thinking that resultant actions will make them happy. They do not know that no kind of material body anywhere within the universe can give life without miseries.
BG 5.2 purport-Fruitive activities (seeking sense gratification) are cause for material bondage. As long as one is engaged in activities aimed at improving the standard of bodily comfort, one is sure to transmigrate to different types of bodies, thereby continuing material bondage perpetually.
BG 6.42 purport-Unless we have a pessimistic view of this material life, considering the distresses of birth, death, old age and disease, there is no impetus for our making advancement in spiritual life.
(The three above statements may seem all very negative, but unless we come to the mode of goodness,by following the prescription of the Acaryas, we will still see this world as a place for our “enjoyment” and thereby not solve life’s problems.)
Conversation with Robert Gouiran Nuclear Physicist European Research center
June 5th 1974 Geneva
Robert Gouiran: May I ask you what do you think about possibility of healing?
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Yogeśvara: Healing.
Prabhupāda: Healing? Where is healing? You are dying, and where is the healing?
Robert Gouiran: You don’t think that people could have a gift for healing?
Prabhupāda: There is no healing in the material world. There is disease always. There is no question of healing. Their healing is temporary. I am suffering from some disease. You give me some medicine. Does it mean that there will be no more disease? You heal that temporary disease. Again another disease. So where is the healing? So this is to be thought, that… Healing, that is the problem. There is no healing. There is always disease, this disease or that disease. If you prefer this disease heal, you are cured, and there will be no more disease, then you are profited. Another disease. You heal this, another disease. You heal this, another disease.
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