snake charmers

In India still there are snake charmers. If one is bitten by a snake he
remains unconscious. By mantra he can be brought into consciousness, in
life. Enechi ausadhi maya nasibaro lagi'. Lord Caitanya said that "I have
brought the medicine." Maya nasibaro lagi'. Just like the snake charmers,
they chant mantra. That is factual. It is not story. One medical
practitioner friend of mine, when he was student in Lucknow, he stated that
there is a palace building, Satar Manji?(?) Satar Manju, in Lucknow. There
is some government office. So there were several snakebite cases. Several
men were killed by snakebite. So they could understand that there is a
venomous snake in this building; at the opportunity he bites. So one
snakecharmer was called, and one Muhammadan snakecharmer, he came, and he
captured that snake and took it away.
Now these medical students, they do not believe in these mantras. They were
surprised. They think that snakebite means finished, there is no medicine.
So they were very much, because they were students, very much inquisitive.
They went to that charmer at his place and wanted to know from him what is
the secret, is it a fact that mantra… So he said, "All right, I shall show
you." So he opened one box, and several hundred snakes immediately came out.
And all the students, they became so disturbed. Some were crying, some were
this way, that way… (laughter) Yes. And the charmer said, "Don't be
worried. So long I am here they will not bite. And don't think that these
snakes are without poison teeth." He took some of them and showed that "Here
is a poison teeth. Not that the poison teeth has been taken away. The poison
teeth is there. But by our mantra, we subdue it. He cannot do any harm." So
the doctor students, medical students inquired that, "Can we not use this
mantra?" Said, "No. You cannot." Because it has to be… (end)
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.1.4 — London, August 22, 1971