SB 1.5.33 (1962)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 33
Amayo yascha bhutanam jayate yena subrata
Tad evea amoya drabyam na punati chiktsitam
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Amayo—diseases, Yascha—whatever, Bhutanam—of the living being, Yena—by the agency, Jayate—become possible, Subrata—oh the goodsoul, Tad—that, Eva—very, Drabya—thing, Na—does it not, Punati—cure, Chiktsitam—treated with.
TRANSLATION
Oh the good soul, does not a thing therapeutically treated cure a disease which was caused by the same thing?
PURPORT
Expert physician treat his patient with therapeutically treated diet. For example milk preparation sometimes causes disorders of the bowls but the very milk converted into curd and mixed up with some other remedial ingredients cure such disorders of the bowls. That is our daily experience. Similarly the threefold miseries of material existence cannot be mitigated simply by material activities. Such material activities have to be turned into spiritual force just like iron is made red hot and thereby the action of fire begins. Similarly the material conception of a thing is at once changed as soon as the same thing is made into use in relation with the service of the Lord. That is the secret of spiritual success. We should not try to Lord it over the material nature neither we shall reject it by material conception of the thing. The best way of making the best use of a bad bargain is to use everything in relation with the Supreme Spiritual Being. Everything is an emanation from the Supreme spirit and by His inconceivable power He can convert the spirit into matter and the matter into spirit. Therefore a material thing (so-called) is at once turned into spiritual force by the great will of the Lord Who is able to do so. The necessary condition for such change of matter into spirit is to employ the so called matter in the service of the spirit. That is the way of treating our material diseases and elevate ourselves up to the spiritual plane where there is no misery, no lamentation and no fear. When everything is thus employed in the service of the Lord we can experience that there is nothing except the Supreme Brahman. The Vedic mantra that Everything is Brahman is thus realised by us.