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scientists
Tuesday, May 11, 2010,Page 14
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An 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, say
the scientists.
¡§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 India¡¦s Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO), the state defense and military research institute.
¡§(Jani¡¦s) only contact with any kind of fluid was during gargling and bathing
periodically during the period,¡¨ G. Ilavazahagan, director of India¡¦s 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.
¡§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.¡¨
(AFP)
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