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I was blessed to see Iyengar this past Monday when he

was in San Francisco. It was incredible to see the

huge crowd in the audience quickly get quiet, all

stand up and applaud until He walked to His seat in

the audience! That alone is something I will never

forget. And then the tributes to Him about how Yoga

helped so many Teachers and Practitioners was

wonderful to hear.

 

Yoga is a blessing that I staggered into very sick

about three years ago and it opened me up enough to

find Ayurveda and then to have the tremendous good

fortune to “discover” that my apartment was located

ten minutes from the ashram of a Great Guru who became

my Guru. All of these “coincidences” enabled me to

get off the six prescription drugs I was on at the

time all this happened in June 2003.

 

Although this is my first post to the group because I

don’t know anything, I am also grateful to this group

and view all of You as my Teachers too. Thank you as

I bow to all of You.

 

Namaste (as I have learned in Yoga),

 

Laura (Deepti)

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Dear Laura,

 

Greetings. You are very fortunate to have a darshan of B K S Iyengar.

I wonder if I will ever have that oppurtunity. When he was a very

small kid, bedridden from various ailments and given up by the

licenced medical experts, his unlicenced uncle introduced him to yoga

and he was soon back on his feet. Soon he became a teacher (and what a

teacher!!) and helped millions conquer their ailments.

 

His books are simply wonderful and some are standard text books in

many Universities in different parts of the world.

 

We regularly hear of scientists being given Noble Prize in medicine

for discoveries that seem very minor compared to the miraculous cures

Sri Iyengar has routinely achieved through yoga. He has always

supported the campaign for mandatory yoga education for children in

schools. Let us hope our "secular" government wakes up before it's too

late. It is a pity that almost all our political luminaries from

Jwaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi to Dr Manmohan Singh and Ms Sonia

Gandhi have benefitted from alternative therapies and yoga and yet

they never saw to it that such proven therapies receive active

government patronage.

 

Recently when Swami Ramdev was asked if the government had come

forward to help him, he laughed his trademark beatific smile and

said, "I'm happy that they have kept their noses out of my activities.

I thank them for that !!".

 

Sri Iyengar is an expert in pranayama. It is the tremendous surge of

Prana Shakti within him that attracts people who feel rejuvenated by

his very presence. Recently scientists have declared after extensive

tests that his body functions like a 25 year old. He must be over 80

now I believe.

 

Incidentally he holds no licenced medical degree and is therefore

a "quack". And so were Dhanwantari, Charaka, Sushruta, Hahnemann,

Schussler, Mikao Usui (and on and on...) and, for that matter,

Hippocrates too !! Maybe we should request Lord Shiva to incarnate on

earth to get a licence.

 

Love & Regards,

Jagannath.

 

 

 

ayurveda, Laura Sanders

<lmsanders51> wrote:

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> I was blessed to see Iyengar this past Monday when he

> was in San Francisco.

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Yes I have been extremely fortunate this past year as

I have been hugged numerous times by Ammachi, met

Karunamayi, met Swami Niranjanananda in South America

and now Shri Iyengar. All in an attempt to find an

economical way and place to continue learning and

healing!

 

Licensed or not, quack or not, I believe it is the

intent of the healer and the patient that greatly

affects the outcome. Caraka talks about the different

types of doctors and also the different types of

patients. As a patient I have experienced different

types of doctors in both the allopathic and

alternative methods. The six prescription drugs I was

on were perfect for me at the time I started them

because I was still feeling so badly from cancer

treatment in 1993. I felt much better with cancer

than after the treatment (surgery, radiation and

chemotherapy) and so trying western medicines again in

2000 was a last ditch effort! It was the catalyst

that gave me back a spark of life which gave me the

energy to find Yoga and Ayurveda. As soon as I could

I stabilized myself and got myself off all of the

drugs, plus vitamins and supplements. Why because I

did not want to take them long term and I knew that I

could not afford them. I knew I had to take control

of my health and life and made changes which have

resulted in wonderful health for which I am grateful

for. And yes, it has been about two years since I

have had health insurance which means that I do not

have access to western medicine without an incredible

amount of hassle, paperwork and waiting.

 

Practitioners, systems of medicine all have good and

bad and by respecting and working together the best

can be applied for the good of All! That is my wish.

 

Namaste,

 

Laura

 

 

--- jagchat01 <jagchat01 wrote:

> Incidentally he holds no licenced medical degree and

> is therefore

> a "quack". And so were Dhanwantari, Charaka,

> Sushruta, Hahnemann,

> Schussler, Mikao Usui (and on and on...)

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