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Wisdom of the Sages

1720: People Over Profits: Inside Radhanath Swami's Bhaktivedanta Hospital

Wisdom of the Sages

David Ramella

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Magic happens in the last place you'd expect it: a Mumbai hospital where patients don't want to be discharged and staff don't want to go home.

Recorded live from Govardhan Eco Village, Raghunath welcomes author Radha Bhakti to unpack the astonishing culture of Bhaktivedanta Hospital on Mira Road—an all-faith, all-heart care facility built on a radical idea: treat the body, mind, and soul… and put people over profits. What started with four idealistic medical students serving Mumbai's slums has grown into a 300-bed integrative hospital where kirtan can be heard in the stairwells, spiritual care teams befriend patients as their "job," and even end-of-life care includes the kind of emotional closure most of us don't realize we're missing until it's too late.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Do you want to share something, Perona?

0:01.4

Yeah, well, I was just thinking with the spiritual care team that she was describing

0:05.3

of also, like, what's been in the conversation in America these days are things like, you know,

0:10.0

that book, The Body Keeps the Score and the idea of like various traumas that we've been through

0:16.2

and how they affect our body and how we hold on to it and it makes us sick.

0:20.1

And it seems like, you know,

0:22.1

it's in the conversation, but nothing's like happening at all in the healthcare industry,

0:25.6

nor will it likely. But it seems like, you know, Merri Road, Bakhtevada Hospital, like really has,

0:31.8

you know, is addressing that also. Yeah, very much so and very actively. I can give you an example, just to contrast that experience that you had, Raghu.

0:42.3

You know, there was one patient, a woman who was soon to, she was on her deathbed.

0:48.3

She had two young children and her husband had just passed away as well.

0:52.3

So naturally she was in so much anxiety,

1:00.3

what's going to happen to my children. And so the Bacte Badi Bada Bada Rha Hospital sent out an email about her asking for donations, and that email went viral. And people were able to, they essentially

1:08.4

got the press to cover her case. The people at the Bac Diby Bada'i Bada'i Hustra Hospital took the press to cover her case.

1:16.9

The people at the Buck Divinza Hospital took the press articles to the bank who then agreed to waive the loan for the mortgage.

1:19.1

So the house is going to be the children's once they turn 18.

1:21.7

Then they took that bank note and went to their universities who waived their tuition.

1:28.1

And then they made sure that they were going to be taken care of by other family members.

1:32.3

And even staff from the back day we went to hospital continue to take care of those children as well.

1:36.7

Okay, hold on a second.

1:38.2

How many people want to get sick in Bombay?

1:40.2

Raise your hand.

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