
In the evenings, people in the neighborhood would come to me for a consultation. “Then I began teaching at the Institute of Traditional Medicine.

Scott and Vivian offered to sponsor him, so he stayed and began to teach regularly at the College of Natural Medicine. Lad was planning on returning to India, but Dr. Scott and Vivian, who were running the school. In Santa Fe, Vasant Lad visited the Santa Fe College of Natural Medicine and became close friends with Dr. I saw all the seasons from the back seat of that car.” - Vasant Lad We were driving in his car a small Volkswagen that was like a little, white bug. From New York, we went to Chicago and Houston and then to New Mexico. He sent me my plane ticket and I went to New York and stayed with him in a tiny apartment on East 11th Street.

If you come to America, people there will love it.”

Lenny said: “This is beautiful-this knowledge is very important. After meeting Vasant Lad, Lenny fell in love with his teachings and urged him to bring his knowledge to the United States. In the 1970s, a gentleman named Lenny Blank came to the Ayurveda Hospital in Pune. Enraptured by the guru’s teaching, he requested an initiation: The guru whispered a mantra in his ear and said, “You will be a great Ayurvedic student and teacher, and you will go abroad-you will write books and you will teach people about Ayurveda.”Ī native of India, Vasant Lad served for three years as Medical Director of the Ayurveda Hospital in Pune, India, and he was Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Pune University College of Ayurvedic Medicine for 15 years. At age 10, Vasant Lad accompanied his father to hear a guru speak.
