Conscious Doctors

“Pride is our most subtle and greatest enemy.”

A perfect business – to go to hell:

In the ‘developed’ country of the United States of America, 4000 abortions
are carried our on a daily basis. In New York City, the number of abortions is
higher than the number of births. 33 million legal abortions are carried out
yearly in the world, which together with the illegal cases makes an
estimated 60 millions children aborted per year. In 6 years, the Nazis killed
20 million people. Yet now, 60 million children are killed every year! Is this
not more than a great injustice and a serious holocaust?

Why should experiments with animals be stopped?

Based on a hypothetical model that animals can faithfully reproduce the
human physiology, for over a century vivisection (experimentation on living
animals) has been practiced under the guise of medical progress. Every year
five hundred million animals are bread, captured or stolen to become
victims of this ‘necessary experimentation’. Yet, with all its tortuous
investigations and sacrifices of living entities, vivisection has not given a
single discovered benefit for mankind; rather to the contrary it has
postponed medical progress.

“Don’t show off or try to demonstrate your abilities, be humble and simple”
Srila Guru Maharaj

The organization of Conscious Doctors is one of friendship and the inter-

exchange of medical experiences between doctors with the purpose of
purifying professional medical activities by supporting spiritual
consciousness. As a result, conscious doctors will have a forum to enable a
greater understanding and to better the practice of holistic therapeutic
systems, such as: Ayurveda, naturopathy, chiropractics, homeopathy,
bioenergetics, acupuncture, etc. Thus, the spiritually conscious medical
professional, with proven results, will become as distant as possible from
modern allopathic medicine, which has its basis in modern pharmacology; a
purely mechanical, bio-chemical approach to the body and its functions.
Allopathic medicine can have so many negative side effects, which even
after extensive investigations in many cases it is difficult to know up to
what point the effects are beneficiary or negative to the patient.

A conscious doctor is a person who knows that we are not the body but the
living soul. S/he knows the body is a gift from God, a divine instrument apt
for spiritual progress and to become a first-class human being. A conscious
doctor has the responsibilities to be fixed in spiritual truths, and to be a
real well-wisher of patients. In India they are called the “Kaviraj”, who
administers medicine like a Brahmin priest administers prayers.
Conscious Doctors must be totally committed to the well-being of their
patients. As well as material medical knowledge, they must have spiritual
wisdom, especially guided via the Bhagavad Gita, to treat and orient the
patient as a whole person. They are thankful to Mother Nature for giving us
all that is required to maintain life, and to the Supreme Lord for allowing us
the chance to discover all that there is to discover and to appreciate the
invitation He gives us to enter the world of real love. The Conscious Doctor
is eager to offer their healing knowledge and practice to all whose lives are
dedicated to the unmotivated service to God; for example within out Vrinda
School of charitable conscious doctors.

The conscious doctor finds opportunities to give conferences promoting a

healthy vegetarian diet as one of the best measures that exists within
preventive medicine. The conscious doctor guides his patients so that they
become compromised to a healthy life, because it is sad to heal people’s
illnesses that were caused by their unhealthy lifestyles for them only to
return to such unhealthy ways and then again to return to the doctor.

A conscious doctor is a person who knows the valuable contribution of the

Vedas, of the process of yoga, and the need to associate with natural energy
(clean water, healthy breathing, natural spaces, etc,). The conscious doctor
defends the environment, advising the avoidance of chemical fertilizers,
pesticides and genetically-modified organisms. They inform their patients to
eat fresh, organic food; to avoid tinned or frozen food, which loses its
natural vitality; and about toxins found in processed foodstuffs, such as
preservatives, colorants, added flavours, salt and flavour enhancers, etc.,
which are all injurious to the health of customers.

Conscious doctors have a leadership responsibility in society. Therefore, in

as much as they gain spiritual knowledge and a readiness for loving sacrifice
to God, to the selfless saints and to humanity in general, their treatments
and education about conduct and healthy lifestyles is a most valuable
contribution. Conscious doctor keeps absolute distance from any situation
that risks the respect for life and the birth chance of a human foetus. Thus,
he is opposed to the abortionists, who do not respect life, which only God
can create. Conscious doctor first explore all the possibilities of natural
medicine before choosing any kind of surgery to patients. They must not be
driven by money, as in the oath of Hippocrates it is said: “A doctors looses
professional rights if by lack of generosity he negates first aid to a needed
patient who is devoid of money”. The conscious doctor is an excellent
representative of God’s will and the teachings of the spiritual master.

The Vrinda Family welcomes those conscious doctors, nurses and health
workers who are touched by the desire to help others with in the healing
process. Conscious doctors support peoples’ spiritual education and
meditation in sacred mantras as the best healing vibrations in the present
age, especially the group chanting of the famous great mantra: “Hare
Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare”. This is the special mantra to save people from the
conditioned life in this actual contaminated age of Kali Yuga, the age of
argument and hypocrisy.

The Conscious doctor always recommends that people seek refuge in God,
to see that all the bodily and mental sufferings are reactions from our wrong
doings in this and past lives; that they are little bells to wake us up to the
reality that we should not live away from His Will. Above all material
suffering there exists a benign invitation to the spiritual world, for bodily
suffering, whilst physically painful, really is not the most important things.
It is most important to awaken spiritual consciousness in each and every
person, for we are soul, mind and body in that order of importance.

The Vrinda Family facilitates association of Conscious doctors with a web

page where they can exchange experiences and encourage each other in
their loving sacrifice for God and mankind. All doctors who want to be
affiliated to this group and who would like to participate in seminars with
other doctors can do so via the webpage. This way, we envisage more clinics
dedicated to the holistic medicines of Ayurveda, naturopathy, etc.; and that
with their mutual association, within their medical clinics a service of
spiritual education will be brought to humanity.

Devotees of the Lord will then have a list of conscious doctors, offering
holistic treatments, to turn to when in need. Whilst the average working
individual or family can pay in full for such services, it is to be hoped that
monks, nuns and renunciates in spiritual communities, who neither have
health insurance or adequate financial resources, will be looked upon
favourably, as such spiritually dedicated people are fully in the Lord’s
service. A valued reference from the sanyasi (renunciate) order will be
needed to prove the dedicated nature of the individual.

In the name of my spiritual master, of Sri Krsna, and all the Vaisnava
preachers, I would like to thank all conscious doctors who in their selfless
service help the preaching efforts of Krsna Consciousness, just as it was in
the time of Sri Krsna Caitanya (16th century) with the existence of the
Kavirajas. Welcome to the group of Conscious Doctors.

Srila Guru Maharaj

Translated and interpreted by Gopini devi dasi & Gopananda dasa