When doctors find treatments nature endows germs with resistance to medicies – why?

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The question is that we develop medicines for certain diseases but then the bacteria, the causes for that, they also develop resistance to those medicines. For example TB, what they call as MTB or multi-treatment resistant TB is there and it’s almost incurable. So how do such things happen? Why do such things happen? The first point is that yes, ultimately it’s karma.
The nature of material nature is that there will be three clashes. So one of them is Adhyatma, the clash that comes from the body and the mind. So there is a doctor, I think Renato Boy, he wrote the book called Health in the 21st Century, the Future of an Illusion.
So what the theme of that book was, the theme was that science claims to have cured many diseases and medical science seems to have done remarkable work. And that is true in terms of eradicating certain diseases. But he also points out that most of the diseases that science claims to have eradicated, they are also products of certain socio-cultural, socio-economic conditions.
And when those conditions change, those diseases, their incidence naturally decreases. So for example, science may have claimed that we have eradicated the plague. That is true.
But then the plague was also more likely to be prevalent when there is a socio-cultural situation where there are a lot of rats. For example, there is an agricultural situation where there are grains and there are rats who go in, or an industry-based situation where there are rats which go around over there. So the eradication of plague cannot be attributed only to medical science.
There are also certain socio-economic conditions that come up which promote certain diseases and which make certain diseases no longer likely to happen. Less probable or more probable. So yes, we may have eradicated certain diseases, but sometimes it is like now there are cancers.
The incidence of cancers which we have now is far greater than it was in the past. It will stress and make us other diseases like that. So the point is that because disease is a particular classic, it is inevitably going to be there.
So yes, that disease is going to be there doesn’t mean that we as doctors don’t try to find cures. That is our human duty. Because it’s like, you know, in any kingdom, there are going to be thieves.
And the presence of thieves also, it remains as a kind of factor. But that doesn’t mean the king shouldn’t have a system of protecting citizens. That’s the king’s duty.
So at one level, if medical science thinks that with the progress of science, we will conquer diseases. That is an attitude which will never come true. Yes, we will cure one disease and some other disease will come up.
Or like in this case, the same disease will morph into some other form. And it will become more complex. So as devotees, we see this as an example of how we will never be able to conquer material nature.
I tell you. And that’s why the solution is that we need to transcend material nature, rise to spiritual consciousness and attain Krishna’s level. But at a functional level, if we are going to be, if we are in the field of medical science, then we should use the best treatment available as a part of our service to humanity.
So we are not in principle against scientific research. Because in today’s world, medical science is doing what in the past Ayurveda also. Like some people can use Ayurveda, some people can use allopathy.
That doesn’t matter. It will vary upon time and circumstances. But in principle, there is this understanding that we will never be able to conquer material nature.
And even through science, we can see this. We may conquer one particular manifestation. But some other problem will manifest some other way.
So the ultimate solution is Adhyatmik. We have to raise our consciousness and become liberated. But practically, we can do whatever is required to find treatments.