This material world operates as a society of systematic cheaters and the cheated in all transactions.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation — February 14, 1971, Gorakhpur 710214R1-GORAKPHUR [10:38 Minutes] Conv_710214R1-GORAKPHUR Prabhupāda: ...my Guru Mahārāja was in his last days, these rascal doctors injected... Our, this Kuñjabihārī, Tīrtha Mahārāja brought so many big, big doctors. And he protested, "Why are you giving me injection?" He protested. He personally said, "Why are you giving me injection?" And if you bring a doctor, the rascals will not stop: "Oh, that is our treatment.
We must try our best." They will plead like that. "To give more trouble to the patient, that is our business." Inventing new medicines means inventing new means of giving trouble. That's all. As soon as you ask them whether by injection the life is guaranteed, they will say, "No.
There is no guarantee. Let us try, make experiment." [laughter] [indistinct comment by devotee] Yes. In hospital, as soon as you get [indistinct—microphone moving]... Whatever nonsense knowledge they have got, they make experiment, at the risk of other's life. Haṁsadūta: When Himāvatī broke her leg they wanted to operate.
I said, "Oh, no chance. No operation." Then they immediately said, "Then maybe she'll never walk again." Prabhupāda: Just see. Haṁsadūta: So I said, "Well, how can we tell?" They said, "Well, there's no way to tell." Prabhupāda: Huh? [laughter] Haṁsadūta: I said, "Suppose we operate. Then it's guaranteed that everything will be all right?" They said, "No." But they thought they should do that, you know. Prabhupāda: Yes.
They canvass, they convince like that and make experiment. That is their business. They have no, I mean to say, assured idea. Simply experiment.
All these hospitals, they are meant for making experiment. I think I have told you one story of my servant. Did I? Haṁsadūta: No. I don't think so. Prabhupāda: Heh? Haṁsadūta: No.
Tell us the story. Prabhupāda: Heh? Haṁsadūta: Please tell us the story. [laughter] Prabhupāda: [laughs] The servant was crying, "Oh! I am dying, I am dying, I am dying." So I immediately called ambulance and took her [him] to the hospital. Then, when I went there, there were so many neophyte doctors.