The spiritual master has to administer the treatment according to the severity of the disease. So the spiritual master knows how to distribute the medicine. This is the most important thing. Just as the physician has to know also how to prescribe medicine. If he gives too heavy a dose to the patient who is suffering too intensely, the dose could kill the patient, or if he doesn’t give enough, the patient will never be cured. So the medicine has to be prescribed according to the nature of the disease. That is what the spiritual master knows.
July 25, 1997, Kharkov