"Once it happened: A man was brought to me; his wife brought him. He was seriously ill but he wouldn't go to the doctor, and he would deny absolutely that he was ill. He would say, 'What is the need to go to the doctor's? I am not ill. I am perfectly healthy. Something has gone wrong with my wife – she has become neurotic, she is obsessed with the idea of bringing me to the doctor's…not only that, she wants to hospitalize me. For what?'

"The man was really ill, and he was saying these things to me: 'I am not ill. What is the purpose? Why are people forcing me? What do they want? There must be something they want out of it. All my relatives, my wife, my children – they are all conspiring against me, and I am perfectly healthy!'

"I could see that the man was trembling, his face was ill and pale, his body weak, his eyes murky, with no health around his body, no well-being. What to do with this man? Why is he insisting…? I asked the wife the details.

"She said, 'He has always been afraid of death, always afraid of illness. When he was healthy, then too it was difficult for him to go to the hospital, even if some relative was there, or friend; even to see and visit the patient was difficult for him. The moment he reaches near a hospital something in him catches fear – death, the idea of death. And now it is creating trouble because he is ill and he won't go – and he insists that he is not ill so what is the use of going to any doctor? Why should he go?'

"I looked at the whole situation. The man was really afraid. I told him, 'Your wife has gone really mad. You are perfectly healthy' – he smiled, his face changed – 'nothing is wrong with you.'

"As if a new lease of energy, something came up. He started laughing and he said, 'I always suspected it. You are the only man who has understood me. Nobody understands! I am perfectly healthy.' And he told his wife, 'Look! Look at what Osho says: I am perfectly healthy."