Robert Svoboda on Ayurveda
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Dr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of twelve books including Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and the Aghora series, which discusses his experiences with his mentor during the years 1975 \\u2013 1983. (Information on all of his books can be found here) Dr. Svoboda was born in Texas in 1953, and in 1972 earned a B.S. from the University of Oklahoma in Chemistry with a minor in French. After being ritually initiated into the Pokot tribe of northern Kenya as its first white member in June 1973 he moved to India, where he lived from 1973-80 and 1982-86, receiving his Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery (Ayurvedacharya) from the University of Poona in 1980. In his final year of study at the Tilak Ayurved Mahavidyalaya he won all but one of the University of Poona\\u2019s awards for academic excellence in Ayurveda, including the Ram Narayan Sharma Gold Medal.
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\\nVata
\\nYou're feeling tired uptight a pretty sorry sight
\\nAfter years of gas and constipation
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\\nCraving heat, can't sleep, rings under your eyes
\\nNo strength and emaciated
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\\nDeluded and dizzy, even having tremors
\\nTalking all the time
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\\nYou're in pain, inflamed, for years it stays the same
\\nThey test and test, but still it can't be named
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\\nThey suggest treatments but no prognosis
\\nYou can't even get a real diagnosis
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\\nIt could be a gluten allergy
\\nIt could be a genetic malady
\\nIt could be mineral deficiency
\\nWhen you've still got no idea about doshas
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\\nKapha
\\nHeavy and hazy, lethargic and lazy
\\nBody feels loose and cold
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\\nPoor digestion, salivation and white discolouration
\\nYou take test after test, for your respiratory distress
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\\nThey suggest treatments but no prognosis
\\nYou can't even get a real diagnosis
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\\nIt could be autoimmunity
\\nIt could be a parasitic disease
\\nIt could be an allergy to trees
\\nWhen they've still got no idea about doshas
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\\nPerhaps they've misunderstood
\\nAnd it's something from your childhood
\\nThey just can't seem to do no good
\\nAnd running out of ideas
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\\nBut you're emphatic
\\nIt's not psycosymatic
\\nIn fact, you've had it
\\nWith this Western approach to medicine
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\\nPitta
\\nGot a burning sensation, yellow discoloration
\\nOf your faeces, urine, eyes, and skin
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\\nSo hungry, so thirsty, so very little sleep
\\nYou take test after test, and the specialists go deep
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\\nThey suggest treatments but no prognosis
\\nYou can't even get a real diagnosis
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\\nWhat could it be?
\\nThey know what it should be
\\nIf only you would be
\\nA little co-operative surely
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\\nGluten allergy? Do bey do bey
\\nIodine deficiency? Do bey do bey
\\nImaginary? Do bey do bey
\\nIt's nothing officially