Product Description

THE HIDDEN SECRET OF AYURVEDA is an excellent introduction and overview of the profound, ancient Indian healing system known as Ayurveda. This book gives the reader a chance to sense the working principles of Ayurveda, and see how Ayurveda can be adapted and integrated into life in a practical way, for today's health needs. The word Ayurveda can be translated as the knowledge of life or more correctly as the knowledge of longevity. Ayurvedic healing looks at the whole person the body, the mind, and the spirit and helps to develop an individual program to bring balance, good health and at least a taste of immortality.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #526387 in Books
• Published on: 1996-10-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 93 pages

Review
... this contains the secrets of why people need to cooperate with Nature completely in order to insure their well-being. -- Dr. Vasant Lad, cover of book, 1994

Herein is contained not only explanations of some of the ways that Ayurveda diagnoses, treats disease, and maintains and insures good health, but in addition this knowledge contains the secrets of why people need to cooperate with Nature completely in order to insure their well-being. --Vasant Lad, B.A.M.S., M.A.Sc., Ayurvedic Physician, author of Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing, Textbook of Ayurveda, and many others as well as an internationally known teacher, lecturer and founder of The Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, NM

From the Author
Indian culture is very different from the culture of the West, but because I found during my many sojourns in India since 1973, and particularly during the six years I spent in medical school in Pune, that these differences are not unbridgeable, I determined to try to bridge a few of them by writing a book on Ayurveda, my subject of study. When I graduated from the Tilak Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya with a degree in Ayurvedic medicine in 1980, books in English on Ayurveda were difficult to obtain, and those which were obtainable were difficult for Westerners to follow. Being a Westerner who was fortunate enough to have acquired this knowledge first-hand in India, I wanted to help expose the average Western reader to Ayurveda, and so I set out to make the book as simple as possible. I omitted as many foreign words as I could without sacrificing what I felt was the substance of the teachings, and used Sanskrit words only when it was impossible to convey their meanings through English equivalents. I strove for clarity and simplicity, and I hope that the basic concepts of Ayurveda still shine through to illuminate these pages without obstruction. My hope now, as it was then, is that this short book will instill in those readers who have only begun to dip their toes into Ayurvedic waters the desire and motivation to pursue further study in this most ancient of all sciences of life.

Robert E. Svoboda, B.A.M.S.

About the Author
The first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda (in 1980) and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India, Dr. Svoboda lived in India from 1973-80 and 1982-86. Since 1985, he has traveled the world lecturing, consulting, teaching and writing. He serves as Adjunct Faculty at the Ayurvedic Institute, Albuquerque, NM, and Bastyr University, Kenmore, WA.

Customer Reviews

Not Very Helpful
Seriously, It is better to go for a more comprehensive book. This book is very very basic. It can still help those who have never been exposed to ayurveda. I suggest to buy a better book. May be other book by the same author titled 'Prakriti'.

Hidden Secret of Ayurveda.by Dr.Robert Svoboda
If you are serious of being a Ayurveda Student you must have this book! "is excellent"