A spiritual master's body weakens, yet his devotion transcends all medical prediction and limitation.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
[Conversation between kavirāja and Prabhupāda as kavirāja examines Prabhupāda, with comments by Bhagatjī.] [Sac-cid-ānanda whispers what kavirāja has said.] Kavirāja: [Transl. Is there any trouble in the heart? Any pain in the chest? Hmm. So much weakness. Very weak.]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. Can't eat anything.]
Kavirāja: [Transl. How can you eat? They made it worse. I heard you had a surgery there somewhere? Did you have?]
Prabhupāda: [Transl. Yes, the doctor said so, because urine was getting obstructed.]
Kavirāja: [Transl. There was no problem in urine. That is natural in old age. There was no stone or anything. There was no need for that. It was a mistake. It has harmed you.]
Kavirāja: [Transl. There was no defect in the urine. I resently treated a patient named Satya who had a similar problem. He also had Dropsy, but he became cured. There was no need for any surgery. Simply useless.The condition deteriorated further. Things didn't improve. Too weak. Nothing else.] Prabhupāda: [Transl. Feel my pulse?] Kavirāja: [Transl. Pulse rate shows weakness and nothing else. Weakness, only weakness.] Prabhupāda: [Transl. Hmm. By feeling the pulse you can tell how long a person will live.] Kavirāja: [Transl. That is not applicable to you. Your duration of life was over long ago. I had told you that your duration of life has finished. Now you are living simply by the power of bhajana. [laughs] No one can predict.Your pulse indicates overall weakness. There is excessive air in the body, hence there is no appetite. Don't feel like eating. Do not move about too much, as you are very weak. Your heart is very weak. There is no other disturbance, only weakness. No other problem, only weakness. There was no need to go to foreign country at this age and undergo operation. It is useless. If there is stone or complete stoppage of urination or any other similar disease then it can be cured by operation. But he had no such problem or defect. His condition has become worse. First of all there is lack of blood, and now this. The sweeling is again there like before. So now let us arrange for medicine. Ayurvedic medicine. The treatment will be like before, but very, very slowly. Can't say what will happen. As I prescribed before, yes like last year, in the same way medicines will go on. But now he has become weaker. Before he was not as weak as he is now. Very weak. That's why any moment the heart may, due to excessive weakness the blood has turned into water. This is the point, nothing else. Take shelter of Govinda. Do not move much. And about diet, before his diet was good. 500 grams milk, fruit juice etc. Now he is not taking anything so how will the body survive? That is the worry. I will give medicine to strengthen your heart so that the sweeling will reduce. Now do you get sleep at night?] Prabhupāda: [Transl. Some day I get, some day I don't get.] Kavirāja: [Transl. Do you feel thirsty for water?] Prabhupāda: [Transl. Not at all.] Kavirāja: [Transl. That is good. To not have thirst for water is good. Take milk little little. Even by force, 2/3 spoonfulls. Milk is your diet. Fruit juice you can take. Milk is your main diet. Milk mixed with sugar candy.] Bhagatjī: [Transl. Juice of what fruits?] Kavirāja: [Transl. Fruit juice, what fruits are available now? Pomeogranate juice, but give in small quantity, because after all it is Dropsy. Make milk as his prime diet.] Bhagatjī: [Transl. Can we give milk?] Kavirāja: [Transl. Only milk, cow milk mixed with sugar candy. Give little by little just like you give medicine. You give him like that again and again.] Bhagatjī: [Transl. Milk I have got.] Kavirāja: [Transl. You have, that's good. Milk is the main food. Milk is his main diet. If he can digest 500 grams of milk then there is nothing to worry. This is the main point. Milk is his only life. And another thing you do is you make a fire with cowdung cake in a furnace and give hot fomentation by a piece of blanket or woolen cloth.]
Bhagatjī: [Transl. Here?] Kavirāja: [Transl. Here, there, everywhere. Keep the windows open so that air can pass. Otherwise the whole room will be dark. Give me a pen and a piece of paper. Pen and paper. I write a prescription. Do not move much, very carefully. There is no other problem, only weakness. Whatever blood was there, that has turned into water.] Bhagatjī: [Transl. Very weak. Within one month…] Kavirāja: [Transl. That is what I was telling him. At this age, he should not have gone out of Vṛṇdāvana. Anyway, it is my great pleasure that you have returned to Vṛṇdāvana by the mercy of Radhāraṇi. Everyone has to give up his body one day for sure. But may we leave our bodies in braja. Jaya ho. I think nobody can read Bengali here?] Bhagatjī: [Transl. Yes, there is.] Kavirāja: [Transl. Yes?] Bhagatjī: [Transl. Tapomaya is there, Prabhāsa is there, Saccidānanda is there.] Kavirāja: [Transl. Okay. Today's date is…] Bhagatjī: [Transl. Today is 3rd.] Kavirāja: [Transl. 3/9.] Bhagatjī: [Transl. No, 10.] Kavirāja: [Transl. 3/10.] [Indistinct discussion among devotees] Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But then that creates mucus. Śrīla Prabhupāda? One problem is that that milk, drinking milk, creates mucus.