Some doctors wonder how we are able to give free treatment, free operations and free meals to our patients. To be frank, there should not be any room for wonder in this regard. You can work wonders with purity of heart. Any work which is started with purity of heart is bound to succeed. Money flows if your work is suffused with love and sacrifice. People will provide munificent funds to support any noble endeavour. The land of Bharat has been a Punya Bhumi (Land of sanctity), Tyaga Bhumi (Land of sacrifice), Yoga Bhumi (Land of spiritual austerities) and Karma Bhumi (Land of righteous action). In fact, there is no dearth of money in India. Doctors should first and foremost have faith in spirituality. Faith in spirituality alone can bring about transformation of humanity. Spirituality is not the celebration of festivals, not even performance of rituals. True spirituality calls for earnest endeavour to eradicate all animal qualities. Today humanity has descended to such a degrading level that men see evil in good, without trying to see good in evil. Doctors who are eminent experts in their fields have come to participate in the symposium here. Sincere efforts should be made to put your great talents and skill to good use. The climes and countries from which you have come may be different. But all of you have one thing in common: noble feelings. These noble feelings are God’s gift to man and come by Divine grace. Treat the patients as your own kith and kin. The help which you extend in good faith to your patients will be rewarded in course of time. It is My wish and blessing that you will have useful discussions and come out with ways and means of helping mankind to be free from heart ailments. (SSS Vol.27, pp. 32-33)

Judging from the thoughts and behaviour of different persons, I mete out different types of treatment appropriate for each of them. I do not look at some persons. I do not talk to some others. I turn away from some others. All these are different types of prescriptions. Why am I giving these medicines? I have a certain principle I attach great value to my words, irrespective of how you regard them. When I notice that some do not respect my words and act properly I do not like to waste my words on them. Because I desire to maintain the value of what I say I refrain from talking to some persons.

People who complain that Swami does not talk to them, why don’t they realise that they have not acted according to Swami’s words? Once you realise that your behaviour is responsible for Swami’s attitude, you will correct yourself and behave properly in the future. Devotees tend to complain against Swami, but do not recognise their own lapses. There is no need to appeal to Swami to speak to them. When you correct yourself, Swami will talk to you of His own accord. If you pray for rain, all other things like growing crops and reaping the harvest will follow naturally. Separate prayers are not needed for each of these operations. If you implicitly carry out Swami’s injunctions, Swami’s grace will be obtained immediately. First of all, impart value to your own words. (SSS Vol.23, pp. 165-166)

The Guru is the physician for the illness which brings about the suffering of alternate birth and death. He is an adept at the treatment needed for the cure. If you do not get such a Guru, pray to the Lord Himself to show you the way and He will surely come to your rescue. (SSS Vol.1)

The credentials of one doctor can be examined and judged only by another doctor; the patient has to believe and carry out his instructions if he desires to improve. He can give his judgement on the doctor only after the course of treatment is finished. Unless he obeyed the orders of the doctor strictly and to the very letter, he has no authority to pronounce judgement. So what can you now speak about Me? Follow My prescription! Naturally, it will be a different one for every one of you; it will depend upon the nature, the age, the virulence of the disease and upon the treatment you have already undergone to alleviate it. Adhere also to the dietary and other regulations that the doctor recommends. That is to say, it is not merely sadhana like japam (repetition of holy Name or formula), dhyanam (meditation), Namasmarana (Remembering the Name of God), etc., that will have to be done, but in order to supplement the effect of these, you have to lead a regulated life, a life conducive to good thoughts, with Sattvika (virtuous) food and Sattvika (noble) pursuits. Until you try out My prescription fully and sincerely, it is best you keep quiet. You do not know even a pebble; how can you evaluate a peak? (SSS Vol.1)

Do not engage yourself in Iccha krishi (the cultivation of or the promotion of wants and desires). That is never-ending process of sowing and reaping; you will never reach contentment; one desire when satisfied will fan the thirst for ten more. Do not run after devious desires or crooked satisfactions. All roads leading to the realm of the senses are tortuous and blind; only the road that leads to God is straight. Cultivate neeti (the path of straight-forwardness) in everything. That will reveal the atma. Neeti will enable you to overcome the three gunas. The treatment you have to give these gunas is to grind them to a paste so that a new taste of ananda might emerge; just as you grind salt, chillies and tamarind together to get a tasty chutney for your meal. No single guna should dominate; all must be tamed and diverted to fill the lake of ananda. (SSS Vol.1)