[1]Kolaceck Antonin, 53, a Czech who has been enamoured by Indian thought and tradition, has suddenly become young. The strands of brown hair have — since the last 64 days — turned jet black!
Antonin stepped out of the thrigarbha (triple-chambered) graham at the Padinjarakara Ayurveda Hospital and Research Centre in Ottapalam in Palakkad district around 12.30 pm on Thursday to the chanting of mantras and a puja being held outside.
After bowing before the idol of Ganesha, he told Deccan Chronicle in broken English, “Fine, very fine feeling.”
He speaks just his mother tongue and says that he developed an interest in ayurveda and tried to learn more about the ‘miracle’ of rejuvenation through kayakalpa rasayana because he was so interested in Indian philosophy.
According to the ayurveda physician at the centre, Dr Sethumadhavan, kayakalpa rasayana is akin to a ‘being an embryo in the womb’.
It was the news about the 92-year-old ascetic, Yugal Saran Maharaj, who underwent a special 45-day ‘kayakalpa’ treatment at the centre that made Antonin come to Ottapalam.
“There were several who approached me. But this needs willpower to stay secluded from everything around, including light, for this long.
I had a tough time dissuading people,” says Dr Sethumadhavan.For 50 days, Antonin, owner of a big coal mining company in the Czech Republic, was in the innermost chamber of the graham.
All he had was medicines supplemented with a glass of milk.He stayed in the second chamber for 10 days and in the first for four before coming out on Thursday.
And as he chuckles he tries hard to convey, using the few English words he knows, that he was healthy and it was his love for India’s ayurveda tradition that he underwent this exercise.
Antonin is flying back to home in two days as his daughter is getting married next week.
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