There was a slogan famous for Indian sub-continent across the world during the British colonial rules that India is the country of magic and magical fakirs. The colonial days are history now but the magical fakirs are still surviving in the country.
BBC had published a report on November 25, 2003 about an Indian hermit who had claimed not to have eaten or drunk anything for several decades.
And the important part of the story was that he was showing perfect health. Doctors and various medical experts were puzzled to see the 70-year old fakir, Prahlad Jani. Later, the team of doctors and the experts had put Prahlad Jani under constant observation for 10 days in Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad.
Dr Dinesh Desai said after the observation completed;
He did not consume anything and neither did he pass urine or stool. Yet he is in fine mental and physical fettle.
If we go with the medical experts’ analysis about food elements needed for good physical health, most people can live without food for several weeks. In that case, the body draws on its fat and protein stores.
But most of the time, the average human cannot survive for more than three to four days without water.
The only fluid Mr Jani was allowed was one hundred millilitres of water, to use as mouthwash, given to him, Later, the same volume of water collected and measured in a beaker when he spat it out. His followers said that he has never fallen ill and can continue to live like this.
The Holy man said;
I feel no need for food and water, I was blessed by a goddess at the age of eight.
Doctors said further;
We cannot verify his claim to have not eaten or drunk for decades but by observing his feat under laboratory conditions, we hope to learn more about the human body.
The current situation of the fakir is that he is still in the same condition. The report on a news channel showed how miraculously his body could survive without water and food.
Some experts says that his bladder automatically recycles urine and also his body takes energy from the sun, cosmos and others who come in contact with him and also from dead internal cells of his own body.
Now, the Indian doctors have appealed to all scientists around the world to come and research on this miraculous man under observation as if they are able to construe the secret behind this.
If the scientists will be able to know the reasons behind his surviving without foods and water, it will be a revolutionary research in the field of Human Anatomy.
And surprisingly Jani is not the single man who claims to live without food and water, there are many others in India and other countries who are living lives like this but do not expose themselves and avoid any kind of attention.
Actually, they go in a hibernation stage and somehow allow their body to consume energy as less as possible and hence can live without food. Scientists first didn’t believe this, but now they’ve confirmed and are in a fix to comprehend the whole matter.
