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Who
should do your bypass?
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Now
let’s consider each. No yoga teacher is qualified to do this
and you will be putting your life at grave risk if you try this. In
Durge’s case, he had no option but to try it or die. On my
part, I was supremely confident that the principles on which my health
programme is based, could help Durge beat the condition. And, what a
result, even if I say so myself! The most stunning aspect of the entire
episode, I realized, was the ease with which one can open blocked
arteries without operation. Slicing a hot knife through butter, I
think, is a tad more difficult.
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Incidentally,
I shall never, ever again, do this for a person who does not have two
or three weeks to spare.
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Durge
was a walking-working any-time-heart-attack time bomb. He had reached
the final heart frontier and was living dangerously with the help of
sorbitrate. He had already blown up his 70-day sick leave. He had
resumed work after getting a warning from the office a day earlier.
Durge and I teamed up to play against an adversary with the highest
stakes imaginable – his life, my career. If it
wasn’t for the stress-busting qualities of yoga, I would have
probably got a heart attack myself, in the fortnight or so Durge took
to get rid of angina pain.
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The
cardiac surgery and skullduggery (you are taking money to butcher a
person by a procedure which is not required in the first place!) which
a bypass operation entails, is definitely out. Yes, open heart surgery
is required for correcting numerous problems associated with valves,
ventricles and others. But bypass surgery is an absolutely unnecessary,
irrelevant and redundant procedure. I am convinced that not even one
person in a million needs it.
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So
where does that leave us? The bypass buck needs to stop with the
cardiologist. All he needs to do is understand yoga. However, your
guess is as good as mine when this is likely to happen. Maybe 10 or 20
years down the line. Until that time, remember, I’m just a
phone call away.
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