Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Have you been drinking much this morning, Śrīla Prabhupāda?
Bhavānanda: We can cut the dosage of the medicine in half.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Why not just give something that helps Prabhupāda to sleep? That's the easiest thing.
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Want to turn that side? Or straight?
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Hari-śauri: His shoulder's on the pillow.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Cover with light covering?
Prabhupāda: Hm? No cover.
Bhavānanda: No cover?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: The main thing, Śrīla Prabhupāda, is that you get some strength. You were sleeping so much, and you weren't getting any better. The sleeping is necessary, but you shouldn't sacrifice. In order to sleep you should not sacrifice those things which give strength and which take away this disease. You have to get strength, get rid of the disease, and be able to rest nicely. That we have seen, that the kavirāja's medicine is not so effective, neither simply doing without any medicine is so effective. We have not tried allopathic medicine, because within a day or two you always stop it. Whenever you take for one day, then you say, "No more." I think that this... If you want to get better, you have to take some cure. No cure—that is not good. And switching from one thing to the other, that is also not good. Why not follow some series of cure, regular, and stay with it for some time? We're not going to let anything severe be done. That's for sure. And Dr. Ghosh has come very long distance, and this other doctor he is taking the help of is supposed to be very expert doctor. So in such a critical condition, why not take the help? What can be gained by again changing to this Vanamali? Just because there was a little inability for sleep, why should you give up all of the, you know, regimentations which they're prescribing? Just like sometimes...
Prabhupāda: No, they say "You drink this, drink this, drink this."
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But Prabhupāda, unless you drink a...
Prabhupāda: No. That's all right, but the drinking forcibly, that is a great botheration.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: But isn't it... I mean the greatest botheration is that you're not well. And the reason you're not well is that you have no strength. And unless you take in, you're not going to get any strength.
Prabhupāda: So how can I take constantly?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It may be bothersome, but it's not so bothersome as being in this ill condition. In order to get better, it seems to me that it's going to be some botheration in order to get better.
Prabhupāda: No, no, bother... What botheration? I cannot take so much.