AYUSHAKTI PULSE READING LINEAGE- by Dr. Pankaj Naram
When I completed my Ayurveda studies and started practicing, after a year’s time, I began to feel frustrated, depressed and anxious. The results were not coming and I thought maybe this ancient science is not working in this modern age. Or perhaps the herbs are no longer effective, as they were thousands of years ago.

My Early Practice
Back then I was using the ‘Maybe Theory.’ Do you know this theory? The Maybe Theory says that if someone has gas or a stomachache, we say, “Maybe it is gas or maybe it’s acidity. It could be colitis, or perhaps it’s the appendix or the glands. If none of those things, maybe you had a fight with your wife. And if it’s none of these, then it is psychosomatic.” In the end, they send you to a psychiatrist.

I was getting too much anxiety and gained many kilos from overeating. I felt lethargic and confused and even thought of leaving this job because it wasn’t my cup of tea.

There was one man I had been treating for two years with no success. Every week I’d ask him, “How do you feel?” I asked him how his appetite was, how his stool was. I never knew why he kept coming back. Then suddenly he just stopped coming.

Two months later I ran into this man on the street and asked how he was doing. He looked much better! He said, “On top of the world! I’m totally well. “Oh, so it was my herbs that helped you?” I asked him. “Your herbs? No! For two years, with your treatment there was no change. I met a very old man and he has helped me!”

I asked how long it took the old man to find out what was happening with him and he said, “Only two minutes. He checked my pulse and told me everything that was happening in my body, mind and emotions.”

I thought, “I must meet this great man.” What to do? So I asked my patient where he had found him and went there. He lived in a forest, a very remote place near Bombay inside a small hut. He was a 115-year young man – full of energy, focus, and mental awareness. On the first day I went there, there was a long queue of more than a hundred people waiting to see him. People heard about him and just came to see him through word of mouth.

Meeting the Great Man
When I reached there that day, I walked to the small hut under a tree. Sometimes he would sit under the tree, sometimes in the hut. I asked some of the people waiting in the queue how this great man had helped them, what was their problem. They told me many different things. Then I showed him my pulse. He said, “Such depression, such anxiety, so much nervousness.” This great man told me, “You have a lot of gas, a lot of acidity.” He described exactly what I was feeling.

From that day, my life changed. I had a burning desire to know what he knew, to learn what he did. I decided I needed to learn this secret art and science of pulse reading. I went to him and said, “I would like to learn.” And he said, “Very good, very good. Come back tomorrow.”

So the next day, I went to his hut and told him I’d come to learn. He said, “Very good. Come tomorrow.” The next day, I came again. “Come tomorrow.” Again the next day I went there and he said, “Come tomorrow.” I again asked. “Come tomorrow.” When I was there, I observed what was happening. I would talk to people. It went on like this for one hundred days.

After a hundred days, I was having a big anxiety! Again on that day, I went before him and said, “Baba, I have come to learn this secret art and science of pulse reading.” He said, “Really? Come tomorrow.” On that day, something happened. I said to him, “If you don’t teach me today, I will just stand here like a rock. I will not go to the bathroom; I won’t eat food or drink water. I will just stand here like a rock.” He said, “Okay, who decides?” I said, “I decide.” Then he said, “Very good. That is your problem.”

The patients started coming. I stood there right there in front of him. After many hours, I started moving my legs because I needed to go to the toilet. He was like a Zen master, so he saw my leg moving and said, “I think you want to go to the toilet.” I said, “Yes.”

Then he said, “In Ayurveda we say never to hold back your natural urges. If you want to go to bathroom, go to bathroom.” But I said, “No, I want to learn and I will not move.” And then, something happened. I started crying like a child. This great man came to me and said, “Okay. I will teach you. But first you clean the toilets. But I said, “I am an Ayurvedic doctor.” Then he said again, “Okay, come tomorrow.”

I said, “No problem.” And I went to clean. After I finished cleaning the toilets, he came and smelled to see. He sniffed and then he said, “Very bad job! If you do not know how to clean the toilets, how will you clean the system of people? Start again.”

Years later, I understand that he was breaking my ego. When you are working with Ayurveda, working with pulse reading, it is a service to God. When you are taking care of a human being, you have to remain humble.

Like this, my training program with him went on for one thousand days, day and night. It was no joke. This was a real training program in the secret art and science of pulse reading. Afterwards, I started practicing this secret art and science of pulse reading and herbal formulas according to what I had learned from my Babaji.

Origin of Siddha Veda Lineage
This Siddha Veda Lineage originates from the Royal Physician, Aakash Gotra of Maghadha who taught pulse reading to Vaidya Jivak. Jivak lived at the time of Lord Buddha during the reign of King “Bimbisar” and “Ajatashatru”. He studied Ayurveda in Takshashila University for 7 years and specialized in Panchkarma, Marma and Surgery. Vaidya Jivak treated and cured Lord Buddha from Nadi Vran. He worked with the classic beauty Amrapali so she retained her youthful countenance and performed many amazing operations using only Marma points and surgical procedures. He wrote all his knowledge in handwritten manuscripts in the Brahmi and Pali languages.

From the time of Vaidya Jivak forward, the Siddha Veda knowledge was handed down from Guru to shishya.

It is this style of pulse reading, Panchkarma and Marma treatments that I learned from Baba Ramdas (also known as Babaji) who lived to the age of 124 years young. Babaji was born and raised at the border of Nepal & India in the Himalayas.
When I met him for the first time, Babaji was 115 years young and still practicing fully near the forest of Mumbai in Dahisar. Even at that age, he used to visit 80 clients a day, doing treatments with pulse reading, Marma points and home remedies. After 19 years of practicing, I received the heritage of the first of 15,000 handwritten manuscripts. These scripts were begun by Vaidya Jivak and passed to the people who practiced from this lineage and continue to do so to this day. Now my wife and I have received a large portion of these pages and are translating their herbal remedies and ancient wisdoms to share with the world through Ayushakti.

SUMMARY
As Babaji had predicted, only because of the powerful and effective results with difficult and chronic problems,
Dr. Naram’s practice began to grow – by word of mouth. From a mere 20 clients a day, within four years, 150 clients began coming each day to see Dr. Naram. This was without any publicity – not even putting a board outside his clinic.

In the meantime, Dr. Smita Naram learned pulse reading directly from Dr. Pankaj. She had received specialized knowledge from Babaji on detoxification and Gynaecological problems, including female infertility. Her practice, too, grew to 200 clients a day.

Within 8 years of Dr. Naram’s practice, he started seeing 300-400 clients every day. Now many Ayurveda doctors and medical doctors want to learn the secret art and science of pulse reading. At present, over 60 western doctors and more than 12 Indian doctors have studied pulse reading with Drs. Naram and many are already incorporating it into their practice.