Aryana Libris

Author : Krishan Shubhra
Title : Essential Ayurveda What it is & what it can do for you
Year : 2003

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Introduction. The lunch that changed my life. It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. Lucille Ball, June 22, 1993. Boeing 747 rises off the runway at London’s Gatwick Airport. Gazing down at the rapidly diminishing carpet of cool green meadows, I feel my eyes mist over. It has been an exhilarating English summer, spent among beloved friends. By contrast, walking through the hallway of New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport is like swimming through a custard of melted sun. The heat threatens to liquefy my eyeballs inside their sockets. Every nerve in my skull is dissolving. But, ah, it is so good to be back home. In the airport lounge, my mother wraps her soft arms around me, and I can smell mustard oil and curry leaves in her hair. Curry and rice - yum ! My stomach rumbles happily in anticipation of the wonderful lunch awaiting me at my mother’s home. Each time I think back to that lunch, my heart fills with gratitude. Of course it was delicious, warm, welcoming. But what made it unforgettable was that it changed my life. We had just sat down to lunch when the doorbell rang. An elderly man stood at the door, wearing a cotton kurta-pajama and an affable smile. My father introduced him as Vaidya Divakar Sharma, our new neighbor. Vaidya Sharma had stopped by to give my mother an herbal formulation for her cough, but at our insistence he stayed for lunch. I was, of course, familiar with the word vaidya. It comes from the Sanskrit word vid, or “knowledge,” and means “one who knows.” I knew that Ayurvedic physicians were called vaidyas, but I had never met one before. ...