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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.5.33

ఆమయో యశ్చ భూతానాం జాయతే యేన సువ్రత । తదేవ హ్యామయం ద్రవ్యం న పునాతి చికిత్సితమ్ ॥ ౩౩ ॥
āmayo yaś ca bhūtānāṁ
[aamayo yash cha bhootaanaam]
jāyate yena suvrata
[jaayate yena suvrata]
tad eva hy āmayaṁ dravyaṁ
[tad eva hy aamayam dravyam]
na punāti cikitsitam
[na punaati chikitsitam]
āmayaḥ — diseases yaḥ ca — whatever bhūtānām — of the living being jāyate — become possible yena — by the agency suvrata — O good soul tat — that eva — very hi — certainly āmayam — disease dravyam — thing na — does it not punāti — cure cikitsitam — treated with.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
āmayo yaś ca bhūtānāṁ
āmayaḥ
diseases
yaḥ ca
whatever
bhūtānām
of the living being
jāyate yena suvrata
jāyate
become possible
yena
by the agency
suvrata
O good soul
tad eva hy āmayaṁ dravyaṁ
tat
that
eva
very
hi
certainly
āmayam
disease
dravyam
thing
na punāti cikitsitam
na
does it not
punāti
cure
cikitsitam
treated with.
O good soul, does not a thing, applied therapeutically, cure a disease which was caused by that very same thing?

An expert physician treats his patient with a therapeutic diet. For example, milk preparations sometimes cause disorder of the bowels, but the very same milk converted into curd and mixed with some other remedial ingredients cures such disorders. Similarly, the threefold miseries of material existence cannot be mitigated simply by material activities. Such activities have to be spiritualized, just as by fire iron is made red-hot, and thereby the action of fire begins. Similarly, the material conception of a thing is at once changed as soon as it is put into the service of the Lord. That is the secret of spiritual success. We should not try to lord it over the material nature, nor should we reject material things. The best way to make the best use of a bad bargain is to use everything in relation with the supreme spiritual being. Everything is an emanation from the Supreme Spirit, and by His inconceivable power He can convert spirit into matter and matter into spirit. Therefore a material thing (so-called) is at once turned into a spiritual force by the great will of the Lord. The necessary condition for such a change is to employ so-called matter in the service of the spirit. That is the way to treat our material diseases and elevate ourselves to the spiritual plane where there is no misery, no lamentation and no fear. When everything is thus employed in the service of the Lord, we can experience that there is nothing except the Supreme Brahman. The Vedic mantra that “everything is Brahman” is thus realized by us.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
The substance by which a living being’s disease arises and which does not cure the disease, when combined with other substances in a medicine, destroys the disease.
Commentary

“How can karma, the cause of saṁsāra, destroy the three miseries?” In two verses, examples are given to show that by different combinations, the destruction can occur. That ghee or some other substance which causes disease (āmayaḥ) when infused (cikitsitam) with medicines (dravyam) does not protect the disease (na punāti), but destroys the disease. The word na punāti (it does not purify) here means “it does not protect.”

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