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grhastha, for he was a great devotee of Lord Ramacandra and Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
By practicing as a physician he maintained his family and at the same time satisfied
Lord Caitanya to the best of his ability. This is the ideal of householder life.

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foFeem scaa atc Seal WH
Cracatt SAcalt,—ge Gta WH ness

cikitsad karena yare ha-iyG sadaya
deha-roga bhava-roga,—dui tara ksaya

SYNONYMS

cikitsa—medical treatment; karena—did; yare—upon whom; ha-iya—becoming;
sadaya—merciful; deha-roga—the disease of the body; bhava-roga—the disease of
material existence; dui—both; tadra—his; Rsaya—diminished.

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 advance-
ment. 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 adhyat-
mika, 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 mahd-mantra, and the diet of prasdda. 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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Baty ora eter ors eta |
Coew-bae fay aife erica Bat Ned tt
