[Excerpt from Srila Gurudeva: Around the World, Holland 1996, the first book in a series of volumes on Srila Gurudeva's world preaching tours.]
Only go to the very good doctors—the good devotees. By harinama and hari-katha, they will have your well-being assured. They are the best doctors and astrologers. I can tell anything here, I can predict and forecast the future of every person in this assembly, but I don’t do so because it is against Vaisnava etiquette. I know every person’s previous births, which number in the millions. Sometimes, you were pigs and hogs. Sometimes you were also dogs, and sometimes demigods.
Devotee: My Guru Maharaja told me that I am still a hog.
[Laughter]
Srila Gurudeva: So, I know everything, really I know. By the pulse of the patient’s hands, the doctor knows the cause of the disease and the disease itself.
Go to the Good Doctors
Only go to the very good doctors—the good devotees. By harinama and hari-katha, they will have your well-being assured. They are the best doctors and astrologers. I can tell anything here, I can predict and…