The Perfect
Unfailing Medicine Another point is that the conditioned souls are all diseased. They are suffering from various kinds of material ills, bhava-rogé, a chronic disease. Some people have taken many medicines; allopathic, homeopathic and Ayurvedic medicines but their disease is not cured. It has become chronic, incurable. They have lost their vitality. Because of this, they cannot digest any food. They have tried many medicines but taking so much medicine produces a bad effect. We see that many people are taking so many strong drugs, but what is the effect? Their disease becomes chronic; it becomes incurable. Although they eat, they cannot digest; the digestive fire has become very low. A person in such a condition cannot survive; he will die. He cannot digest anything. He has already lost his vitality, so what can be done? Once this condition is present, the kaviräja advises that there is only one thing he can eat: padma-madhu, that special type of honey. By taking that padma-madhu, he will regain his vitality. When a person is dying, he cannot eat food, but by administering that special type of honey, he can regain his vitality. Similarly, a jéva who is wandering throughout innumerable universes is getting only suffering and pain, and so many material ills, bhava-rogé. That jéva has already lost his vitality, jévana-çakti, and has now become completely hopeless. He is afflicted with an incurable disease. The Lotus Feet of Śrī Guru 11
