Renowned Ayurveda master Pankaj Naram Passes away Mumbai Feb 19
from United News of India and Cynthia Copple
Renowned Ayurveda Master Pankaj Naram who treated people like St. Teresa and the Dalai Lama as well as celebrities worldwide, passed away on Wednesday following heart failure, his family said on Saturday.
He had arrived in Mumbai from Dubai and suddenly collapsed while going through the check-out at Mumbai Airport.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital and all efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, his wife Smita and son Krushna—both Ayurvedic doctors, said in an official statement. He was 65.
He treated hundreds of thousands of patients around the world, in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, South Africa and the Arab nations.
In 1988 NAMA co-founder Cynthia Copple met him in Mumbai and sat with him as he read pulses and gave herbal remedies to 400 plus patients a day. She took each pulse after him, as he taught his pulse reading technique.
She sponsored Dr. Naram for his first US trip in 1989 and he came to her clinic several times a year for a few years, then returned under various sponsorships several times a year for around 30 years, treating many thousands of patients.
His wife Smita was a Presenter at a NAMA conference.
In 1988 Ayurveda was in disrepute in India, and he determined to change that. He had a national TV show on Ayurveda in Mumbai, was interviewed and wrote many articles world-wide and continually traveled, taught and treated patients to spread the knowledge of Ayurveda. He was small in stature and huge in ambition and accomplishment.
His father, a Naturopathic Doctor, told him he should become a politician or lawyer. But he chose a field that was not well respected among the well-educated, and he made it respectable. He learned business strategies from Tony Robbins as well as from international experts and combined the wisdom of Ayurveda with good business practices to become financially and personally very successful. He always said it was not he who was successful, but he was simply there as a conduit to bring Ayurveda world-wide. He was a very spiritual man, as are most Ayurvedic doctors.
We are lucky to have had such a charismatic and ambitious Ayurvedic doctor spreading the word world-wide. It is a great loss.