DVDs with the Elders: Brahmanand Swamigal

This frame of Brahmanand Swamigal from Pan Nalin’s informative and meditative Ayurveda: The Art of Being captures him talking about his Ph.D. from Sri Lanka University. You see, kids, I don’t have any nurtured and cherished sexual fantasies. I have social fantasies that necessarily result in me having intimate relations with an excellent woman.

So when a see an elder like Brahmanand Swamigal I eventually imagine that he must have a stunning adult daughter that is somehow charmed and completely fascinated with me. So our precious and sensual bond takes us to the same waterfall where “father” goes to meditate and we still ourselves there too… after an unknown quantity of time passes we open our eyes—our lashes glistening with beads of mist…

But let’s not ignore Brahmanand Swamigal. Yusef Progler wakes me out of fantasy in Journal of Research in Medical Sciences (May & June 2008; Vol 13, No 3: 156-157) with this:

Ayurvedic physician Brahmanand Swamigal, who insists that, “I do not treat diseases, I treat people.” The film profiles Swamigal, observing his practice and learning something of his training. From a long lineage of fourteen generations of Ayurvedic physicians, he began studying with his father at age thirteen and continued to study throughout his 55 year career, having learned specializations from 20 gurus, or masters, who used poetry as a way to aid in learning the medical principles and formulas. Many of these gurus are now deceased, perhaps pointing to the fragility of a trans-generational master-student tradition, but which is nevertheless necessary to interpret and pass on the interwoven ancient wisdoms to the younger generations.

See? No mention of his alleged incredibly attractive startlingly brilliant daughter here.

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