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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1977]]
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">No, they say "You drink this, drink this, drink this."
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- October 18, 1977, Vrndavana|Room Conversation -- October 18, 1977, Vrndavana]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The main thing, Śrīla Prabhupāda, is that you get some strength. You were sleeping so much, and you weren't getting any better. The sleeping is necessary, but you shouldn't sacrifice. In order to sleep you should not sacrifice those things which give strength and which take away this disease. You have to get strength, get rid of the disease, and be able to rest nicely. That we have seen, that the kavirāja's medicine is not so effective, neither simply doing without any medicine is so effective. We have not tried allopathic medicine, because within a day or two you always stop it. Whenever you take for one day, then you say, "No more." I think that this... If you want to get better, you have to take some cure. No cure—that is not good. And switching from one thing to the other, that is also not good. Why not follow some series of cure, regular, and stay with it for some time? We're not going to let anything severe be done. That's for sure. And Dr. Ghosh has come very long distance, and this other doctor he is taking the help of is supposed to be very expert doctor. So in such a critical condition, why not take the help? What can be gained by again changing to this Vanamali? Just because there was a little inability for sleep, why should you give up all of the, you know, regimentations which they're prescribing? Just like sometimes...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, they say "You drink this, drink this, drink this."</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But Prabhupāda, unless you drink a...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. That's all right, but the drinking forcibly, that is a great botheration.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But isn't it... I mean the greatest botheration is that you're not well. And the reason you're not well is that you have no strength. And unless you take in, you're not going to get any strength.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So how can I take constantly?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It may be bothersome, but it's not so bothersome as being in this ill condition. In order to get better, it seems to me that it's going to be some botheration in order to get better.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, no, bother... What botheration? I cannot take so much.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: See, it would be easier if we only had to give you three or four times in a day, but you take so little at a time...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: What can I do?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Can't you...? I mean...</p>
<p>Bhavānanda: They said that one of the symptoms of this infection is—this poisoning—is that you become averse to taking any liquid or any food. Just like you're expressing your aversion that you're not able to. But actually you are able to, but you don't want to. But you have to force yourself in order to get better.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Then, then the same problem comes, and they will forcibly...</p>
<p>Bhavānanda: (whispering) Hospital.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But, Prabhupāda, one thing is that if you expect to simply naturally feel like doing this or that, how can you expect something..., to feel naturally hungry if you're ill? Unless the disease goes away... Then naturally you'll feel like drinking and eating. Just like you described to us, when a person is not Kṛṣṇa conscious he has to force himself to get up early, force himself to chant, force himself to go to ārati. Naturally he doesn't feel like these things in the conditioned stage. So similarly, when one is in a diseased condition, naturally he won't feel like taking the medicine or taking the necessary foodstuffs. But if he doesn't force himself, then he can't get out of that diseased condition.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So that condition is finished. I have no stamina to force.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You won't let us help you to have that stamina?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How you can?</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We can sit you up physically. We can put the liquid in your mouth. All you have to do is agree to it. Physically it's not... It's not physically so difficult. The main question is the willingness.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: But when one's physical strength... You...</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: I think it would be possible for you to get better, Śrīla Prabhupāda. But I...</p>
<p>Bhavānanda: Everyone says, Śrīla Prabhupāda, that liver is good, digestion is good, your heart is good.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Simply you're not taking enough foodstuffs.</p>
<p>Bhavānanda: But you won't eat.</p>
<p>Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But it's not a fact that you cannot eat, because when we gave you the enema, there was stool. Which shows that everything you ate turned into stool or was digested. The only problem was because of lack of energy or strength, you can't pass the stool out. But it's not a fact that it didn't get digested.</p>
<p>Bhavānanda: Śrīla Prabhupāda, please try. Śrīla Prabhupāda, your presence on this planet is the only thing which is keeping the onslaught of the Kali-yuga from really taking effect. We have no idea even what will happen if you should leave.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is not in my hands. Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma.</p>
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