Sometimes people complain that Hare Krishna prasadam (sanctified food) contains too much ghee.

In Caitanya Caritamrta, Adi 10.49, purport, we learn that even Lord Caitanya Himself was victimized by such practice:

“Once Shivananda Sena offered food to Lord Caitanya that had been cooked with excessive ghee, and the next day the Lord became sick and went to Murari Gupta for treatment. Lord Caitanya accepted some water from the waterpot of Murari Gupta, and thus He was cured. The natural remedy for indigestion is to drink a little water, and since Murari Gupta was a physician, he gave the Lord some drinking water and cured Him.” Copyrights BBT.

Once I took dinner at

Govinda’s – Food for Life

and as a direct result, at about 1 or 2 am the next morning, I woke up and had to evacuate very quickly mostly fluid to avoid a total mess. I was staying in my Sankirtan travelling van in Kings Park more or less legally. This is one of the reasons City Councils forbid and strictly enforce laws against freelance camping. In tourist places like Broome, Western Australia, Council Ranger just impose a hefty fine without a single word being exchange with the so-called offender, whether awake or sleeping.

Later it was admitted that the cook may have used too much ghee. It was all handled in the thirst person, but I got an idea that the temple president himself was the actual cook.. What a disturbance to my book distribution program it was anyway! When one goes to India and just drinks any water, one gets sick immediately because of chronic pollution. Naturally a country of 1.4 billion will produced a lot of waste. We don’t really want similar conditions in our so-called Western countries because of the cook’s unfavorable mental state. This is definitely not welcome.

The same happened to me after taking breakfast at ISKCON Adelaide, South Australia. and again what a disturbance to my book distribution program it was. Luckily I could find a toilet very quickly in what was for me new and foreign terrain at the time. I was staying at ISKCON Adelaide.

The best remedy to cure the material disease of the spirit soul is to chant as much as possible:

HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA

KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE

HARE RAMA HARE RAMA

RAMA RAMA HARE HARE

The recommended number of mantras is a minimum of 1728 daily mantras, which represents two hours of dynamic meditation.

CC Adi 10.51, purport by Srila Prabhupada:

“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 advancement. 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 adhyatmika, 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 spiritual disease of the spirit soul. The Krishna 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 Krishna consciousness movement supplies spiritually stricken people with the medicine of the chanting of the holy name, or the Hare Krishna mahä-mantra, and the diet of prasadam. There are many hospitals and medical clinics to cure bodily diseases, but there are no such hospitals to cure the spiritual disease of the spirit soul. The centers of the Krishna consciousness movement are the only established hospitals that can cure man of birth, death, old age and disease.” Copyright BBT