One crazy famous cook would fanatically say in the early days if you were sick and needed hospital treatment "You're in Maya prabhooo, snap out of it! Surrender prabhooo and just chant Hare Krishna, NOTHING else can help you 'prabhuooo!' "

Sadly in the very early pioneering immature days of ISKCON, many of the young devotees of the time believed the only cure for sickness was chanting Hare Krishna, and have faith ONLY in Krishna.

They foolishly claimed everything outside the Temple was Maya and run by demon karmis including Hospitals LOL.

If you were sick, these foolish young fanatical devotees, like one cook I remember, would say "You're in Maya prabhooo, snap out of it! You're in Maya! Just chant Hare Krishna!! Nothing else can help you!"

Nearly all of Prabhupada's disciples were in their early 20s back then, that is why Prabhupada called them boy's and girls.

Sadly, this is what many devotees then would childishly said -

"No dirty stinkin rotten karmi meat eating demon Doctor will ever help a devotee!!"

Other devotees would foolishly say "it's your karma prabhooo, stop complaining, you are meant to suffer".

Just another cold stupid comment to make us believe we are meant to suffer and cannot do anything about it, when we can by simply choosing to see a doctor for help. And yes, that's karma too!

When Prabhupada cut his finger in February 1973, he never relied on just chanting Hare Krishna, he told us to bring him a doctor who gave him penicillin that healed his finger.

God helps those who help themselves.

In 1975 a devotee was very sick and wanted to see a doctor and get medicial help, and the above comment is what this nonsense arrogent Temple Present said.

Sadly there are a few nonsense devotee today who foolishly have the same crazy attitude about life saving vaccines.