Test confirms 'sadhu' abstained food, water for 66 years

[jeevatma 0]

Reference : http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_473961,0008.htm

 

Test confirms 'sadhu' abstained food, water for 66 years Press Trust of India

Ahmedabad, November 27

It's no fast-unto-death, it's no hunger strike. But a septuagenarian sadhu's apparently simple decision to switch off food since the age of ten after being "blessed by the Goddess" that has left scientists perplexed.

 

Prahllad Jani, the 76-year-old 'sadhu' from the pilgrim town of Ambaji in north Gujarat, has scientifically proved that he neither ate nor drank anything for the past 66 years.

 

Jani claims that he has managed to fight hunger and thirst after he was blessed by "Mataji" (Ambaji deity) at the age of 10 years.

 

The medical fraternity did not believe it prima facie, but after a close 10-day observation, including sonography twice a day, at the Neuro ICCU of Sterling Hospital, medicos had to admit that Jani has the ability to survive without food and water.

 

Hospital authorities confirmed that Jani not only refrained intake through mouth or any other route but he also did not excrete, while under observation.

 

"No doubt, his bladder produced 400 ml urine during the day, but the next day it was absorbed by the bladder itself", Dinesh Desai, a doctor at the Sterling Hospital said.

 

"Mataji blessed me at the age of 10 with energy in the form of 'Amrut' from my upper jaw to sustain me and since then I have never felt the need for food nor water nor have I fallen ill," Jani claimed.

 

"I will continue to live like this till she commands," he added.

"Though no normal person can continue without passing stool or urine for more than seven days, Jani is absolutely normal and shows the same physiological process like any other person. He is fit and fine," Dr VN Shah, a member of the Association of Physicians of Ahmedabad (APA), said.

 

The panel formed by APA, which took it upon itself to verify the authenticity of Jani's claim to observe him included a physician, cardiologist, neurologist, neurosurgeon, gastoenterologist, diabetologist and an ENT surgeon.

 

The Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), New Delhi would be conducting further research on him, Shah added.

 

Jani has now been discharged from the hospital but doctors intend to keep a track of him as this could result into new findings.

 

 

govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami

[theist 1]

I love stories like this. Anything that was once deemed impossible according to the 'laws' of mundane scientists that is proven by their own methods and puts them into a quandry brings a smile to my heart.

 

Any clues from yogic lore as to how he does it? What is happening in the cellular workings that allows this?

[Guest guest]

so this guy claims to have the blessings of a local Durga avatar who preaches impersonalism, and now we are smiling because it confounds scientists?

 

Personally I'm laughing that anyone could have such faith in an obvious charlatan.

 

 

[Jahnava Nitai Das 2]

Here is another article on him:

 

1. Fasting Hindu Holy Man Baffles Physicians

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3236118.stm

 

AHMEDABAD, INDIA, November 2003: Doctors and experts are baffled by an

Indian hermit who claims not to have eaten or drunk anything for

several decades--but is still in perfect health. Prahlad Jani, a holy

man, who is over 70 years old, has just spent 10 days under constant

observation in Sterling Hospital, in the city of Ahmedabad. During that

time, he did not consume anything and "neither did he pass urine or

stool," according to the hospitals' deputy superintendent, Dr. Dinesh

Desai. Yet he is in fine mental and physical fitness, say doctors. Most

people can live without food for several weeks, with the body drawing

on its fat and protein stores. But the average human can survive for

only three to four days without water. "A series of tests conducted on

him show his body mechanism is that of a normal person," said Dr.

Desai. Mr. Jani spends most of his time in a cave near the Ambaji

temple in Gujarat state. He spent his 10 days in the hospital in a

specially prepared room, with a sealed-off toilet and constant video

surveillance. To help the doctors verify his claims, Mr. Jani agreed to

avoid bathing for his time in the hospital. The only fluid he was

allowed was a small amount of water, to use as mouthwash. At the end of

his confinement, doctors noted no deterioration in his condition, other

than a slight drop in his weight. "I feel no need for food and water,"

says Mr. Jani, who claims he was blessed by a Goddess at the age of

eight and has lived in caves ever since. It is likely that doctors will

want to examine Mr. Jani again in order to solve the medical mystery he

has presented them with, says this article.

[ShegavichaRana 0]

fulfilled their desires of eating and drinking in their previous births but want to do Sadhana are born like this Sadhu. It is good, that such episodes would be an eye-opener to those who believe only in science and think that science is capable of answering all their questions.