India Studies Yogic Power for Life Without Food 29 April 2010, by Rajesh Joshi
India studies yogic power for life without food 29 April 2010, by Rajesh Joshi A team of military doctors backed by India's "Jani says he meditates to get energy. Our soldiers national defence research centre is studying an will not be able to meditate, but we would still like to 83-year-old holy man who claims to have spent find out more about the man and his body," he said. seven decades surviving without food or water. Neurologist Sudhir Shah, who studied Jani in 2003 The long-haired and bearded yogi, Prahlad Jani, and is part of the new experiment, said that the has been sealed in a hospital in the western city of extremely skinny but apparently active man faced Ahmedabad where he is under 24-hour round-the-clock observation. observation by 30 doctors and will be subjected to a series of medical tests. "Two stationary 24-hour video cameras have been set up in his room, while a mobile video camera "The observation from this study may throw light follows him whenever he needs to step outside," he on human survival without food and water," doctor said. G. Ilavazahagan, director of India's Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences Jani, who dresses in red and wears a nose ring, (DIPAS), told AFP. grew up in Charod village in the Mehsana district in Gujarat and claims to have been blessed by a The DIPAS is part of the Defence Research and goddess aged eight, which has enabled him to Development Organisation, India's state defence survive without sustenance.
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