The essential mark of a hospital is its cleanliness. Clean toilets are an index of the cleanliness of a hospital. Our hospital is as clean as a mirror, as it is kept always clean by the team of dedicated Seva Dal volunteers who relentlessly work hard with a spirit of service and sacrifice. It is not the service of one, but the service of many, which has contributed to the rapid development of our hospital! A single flower cannot make a garland. All the people, the patients, doctors, workers – work in a spirit of harmony and unity. It is this sense of unity, which contributes to purity and this purity of heart, secures divinity. This hospital is a direct proof of the presence of purity, unity and divinity. It is our fond hope that such purity, unity and divinity should prevail in other hospitals as well! Unity is most essential in all fields of activity – moral, scientific and spiritual. Purity vanishes in the absence of unity. Divinity will be absent when there is no purity and unity. Humanity will be healthier if doctors resolve to offer two days of free treatment every week. (SSS Vol.27, pp. 31-32)

Some of you may ask why there should be a Hospital at all, here! Why should not Baba cure diseases by an exercise of His Will, that is the question? Well, for one thing, this Hospital is not My only Hospital. Hanumantha Rao has a Hospital in Madras where disabled children are treated and trained to be useful and self-respecting individuals. That too is My Hospital. In fact, all hospitals everywhere are Mine. I visit them all. Why, all those who call out from their hearts for succour, in whatever language, from whatever clime, whether from hospitals or homes, are Mine. Do not confine Me to these few acres round the Prasanthi Nilayam. Wherever a person craving for Prasanthi lives and prays, there a Prasanthi Nilayam exists.

You should remember another point. The Hospital serves to increase faith, to demonstrate Divinity and to remove doubt. That is also necessary. Besides, you have to mark time, in consonance with the song that is sung. There are many who are hungry for medical treatment and they are satisfied only if drugs are given and injections administered. Their faith in Grace is not yet strong. So, a Hospital is required for such. (SSS Vol.3, p. 75)

‘I establish hospitals for such persons who get mental satisfaction and peace only when they are treated in the hospitals, unaware that faith in the ever-healthy atma is the best tonic and drug. When they visit these hospitals, they will realise that divine grace is more potent than all drugs; they will turn God ward and tread the path of Self-realisation.’ When asked about secret of miraculous cures, He answered, ‘it is My experience that I am one with every sentient being and inanimate object. My love flows out to every one. I see everyone as Myself. If a person reciprocates My love from the depth of his heart, My love and his, meet in unison and he is cured of his affliction. Where there is no reciprocity, there is no cure.’ Of course there are cures which are effected by His mere will. When Dr. Hislop asked Baba, ‘Does Swami cure a person only when the Karma is appropriate?’ He replied, ‘No. If Swami is pleased with the person, He heals that person at once. Karma cannot come in the way. If the person has a pure heart, and is living Swami’s teachings, Swami’s grace comes to him automatically.’ (SSSm Vol.5, p. 235)

Everyone working in a hospital, be they doctors, nurses, paramedical staff or technicians, should have the spirit of unity. This hospital demonstrates the ideal of unity. All the staff in this hospital works with a feeling that they belong to one family. Our hospital stands for unity in diversity. It does not crave for money and fame. In olden days,education, health care, food and water were provided free of cost. I have determined to provide them all free.

Our hospital is not a business centre. Most hospitals have become business centres. It is the worst of sins to run a hospital with the sole purpose of earning money. You should understand that you might fall ill some day. Hence, you should treat the patients with love, without expecting anything in return. You should not aspire for money from them. After I have started this hospital, many doctors have become jealous of Me and have started putting obstacles. Come what may, I will never give up this sacred task. Their jealousy will only motivate Me further to carry on with sacred activities. Their jealousy will ruin them ultimately. There will be peace and security in the world only when people give up hatred and violence, inculcate the feelings of love and realise the unity of mankind. (Telugu Poem).

One should never be jealous of others’ prosperity. Jealousy is the worst quality. Once I take up a sacred task, I will never go back on it. There are many poor and downtrodden people who are suffering for want of proper medical care. Nobody cares for them in big hospitals, as they cannot afford costly treatments. In some hospitals, they are not even permitted to enter the main gate. Can there be a greater sin than this? My intention is to provide free medical care to all such people and forlorn people. (SSS Vol.35, pp. 22-23)