QuoteAn 83-year-old Indian holy man who says he has spent seven decades without food or water has astounded a team of military doctors who studied him during a two-week observation period.
Prahlad Jani spent a fortnight in a hospital in the western India state of Gujarat under constant surveillance from a team of 30 medics equipped with cameras and closed circuit television.
During the period, he neither ate nor drank and did not go to the toilet.
"We still do not know how he survives," neurologist Sudhir Shah told reporters after the end of the experiment. "It is still a mystery what kind of phenomenon this is."
The long-haired and bearded yogi was sealed in a hospital in the city of Ahmedabad in a study initiated by Indias Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the state defence and military research institute.
The DRDO hopes that the findings, set to be released in greater detail in several months, could help soldiers survive without food and drink, assist astronauts or even save the lives of people trapped in natural disasters.
"(Janis) only contact with any kind of fluid was during gargling and bathing periodically during the period," G. Ilavazahagan, director of Indias Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), said in a statement.
Jani has since returned to his village near Ambaji in northern Gujarat where he will resume his routine of yoga and meditation. He says that he was blessed by a goddess at a young age, which gave him special powers.
During the 15-day observation, which ended on Thursday, the doctors took scans of Janis organs, brain, and blood vessels, as well as doing tests on his heart, lungs and memory capacity.
"The reports were all in the pre-determined safety range through the observation period," Shah told reporters at a press conference last week.
Other results from DNA analysis, molecular biological studies and tests on his hormones, enzymes, energy metabolism and genes will take months to come through.
"If Jani does not derive energy from food and water, he must be doing that from energy sources around him, sunlight being one," said Shah.
"As medical practitioners we cannot shut our eyes to possibilities, to a source of energy other than calories."
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Just wondering as it seems to break all scientific reasoning.
you canna break the laws of physics capn
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Quote from: Binary Shadowyou canna break the laws of physics capn
the indian david blaine.. a good magician lives his act.
I do believe its possible to shut your body down into a hibernation state.
I guess thats possible with meditaiton, but it doesnt say how active he was
re excercise, etc. - did they put him on a running machine, make him lift weights, etc.
I do not believe in God or magic but I do think that much more than the can imagine which is "physically" possible.
What is the normal time to death without water? 3 days? With training and low activity I guess this could be stretched somewhat. Maybe even hit the 15 day mark. But 70 years is a joke. As far as tests go 15 days is a joke, if he reckons hes been doing it for 70 years, damn well get him monitored for a year. If he claims he needs privacy to meditate, he should be denounced straight away, just like the various shrines that claim to have holy relics behind a curtain, but only the holy men are allowed to see them.
Fake. I can tell from the pixels.
Do you even need to ask ?
He is clearly hiding a Mars bar under his pillow