Passage 3

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In plain words

That is why I am telling them, ‘You are doing ten or twelve operations a day. No, no; do three or four, that is enough. You too must stay healthy. If you overstrain yourselves, it becomes a great difficulty for us.’ With such great doctors here, I have resolved that training should be given so that good nurses too are available to help them, and from tomorrow I am starting a nurses' training college. For the doctors, doing the operation is easy. But looking after the patients once the operation is over is the hard part. Cutting vegetables is very easy. But cooking them into a good curry is the hard part. This cooking depends on the nurse. If the nurse is not as she should be, even a well-done operation turns into a failure. We are opening the nurses' college from tomorrow to train good nurses. Anyone with a spirit of sacrifice, anyone who means to serve with a pure heart, may come to our Safaya, hand in an application and join it: there is no expense of any kind, and one can study free! At a nursing college elsewhere they have to pay tuition fees and all sorts of other fees. Here there is no fee of any kind. We have provided the meals free too. What is needed is people with a good heart. Right now our hospital has as many as it needs. Yet however many there are, it is not enough. Why? Because the patients are many. So more nurses are needed still. We are not asking only for our own sake, but for the country's. The welfare of the country is our welfare. ‘Jananī janma bhūmiśca svargādapi garīyasi’: the mother who gave us birth and the land where we were born, both surpass heaven. So we must spread holy things like this within our country. For those living in villages and hamlets in some far corner, it is very hard to bring them an opportunity like this.

For us practice is what matters, not publicity!

Because so large a hospital has opened today in this village, so many people are being helped in so many ways.