Posted on 08/28/2006 8:31:36 AM PDT by aculeus
Hira Ratan Manek claims that since 1995 he has lived many days solely on sunlight and water.
Sun gazing is the practice of staring directly at the sun to receive “nourishment” from it.
The practice is controversial since some believe that looking directly at the sun for even brief periods of time may cause blindness or severe damage to the eye. Most eye care professionals advise against looking directly at the sun.
“Sun gazing is a relaxed look at the sun just as we see sunrise and sunset,” Manek said. “It gives all benefits for health. Those who practice sun gazing get total health of mind, body and spirit without any cost … but only at safe times of the sun.”
Sun gazing is often practiced with the bare feet in direct contact with bare earth. Some sun gazers only sun gaze during the so-called safe hours, one half hour after sunrise and one half hour before sunset, while others feel that sun gazing can be done at other times of the day.
Manek, 69, from Bodhavad, India, has studied sun gazing for several years and claims that since June 1995 he has lived only on sun energy and water. Occasionally for hospitality and social purposes he drinks tea, coffee and buttermilk.
According to Manek and other proponents, sun gazing was practiced by a number of cultures including the ancient Egyptians, Aztecs, Mayans and Native American tribes as well as practitioners of Indian and Tibetan Yoga.
When asked how depriving the body of food would lead to adverse effects, Manek said the human body requires energy and that the sun is capable of providing the body with all the energy it needs to function.
“What we traditionally eat is nothing but a secondary source of sun energy,” he said. “But the body has a mechanism to receive energy directly from the sun and store it to use as it requires.”
Some positive results reported by sun gazers are increased energy level and decreased appetite.
Pravda.ru has recently published an article about another case of so called “sun eating”.
Nikolai Dolgoruky calls himself a “sun eater.” He lives in the Dnepr region of Ukraine. He feeds only on prana and solar energy.
“After arriving in a village where he lives, I saw a barefooted man standing on the porch. He was wearing a bright orange dress with the sun embroidered on the chest. The man’s face looked otherworldly, his eyes glistened, and a smile crossed his face. He moved about easily and seemed to be barely touching the ground. He did not have no sunken cheeks nor bags under his eyes. His skin was glowing from inside as if he were a happy teenaged girl”. (Read the full text of the article “Ukrainian man eats only sunshine and lives by the law of flowers”)
oh well.
But it's the "Dark Continent"...........
Think this guy might be related to Classy Green-eyed Girl? Or maybe he is Classly Green-eyed Girl.
"Since June 18th, 1995, HRM has and continues to live only on sun energy and water. Occasionally, for hospitality and social purposes, he drinks tea, coffee and buttermilk. Until now, he had three strict fastings, during which he had just sun energy and only water and was under the control and observation of various science and medical teams. "
I bet he gets a lot mileage out of those hospitality and social purpose visits...
Other side effects include incessant devotion to boy-bands, the need to post long melodramatic self-naratives of your life on mySpace, and over use of scrunchies.
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I feel the need to reply.
Although there are many reported cases of holy men in India living of nothing, prayer, sunlight or other etherial substances, it is important to realize that (not counting all the fakes) these men still drink water.
Water in the western world is considered a drink with no nutrient content, the story is quite different for primitive India.
Many of such holy men drink from the river Ganghes or other sacret rivers. Taking the river Ganghes as example, it is absolutely loaded with nutrients from varied sources, such as the remains of partly cremated corpses that are thrown in the Ganghes as part of funerals, the excrements of people relieving themselves in the river, the food remains of washed out pans and various other sources.
This water would not become someone who wasnt used to it very well, but if you are used to bad conditions and accept greater health-risk, you might very well be able to live of the water, especially if your primary activity exists out of sitting on a rock meditating.
Mama always told me not to look into the eye's of the sun
But mama, that's where the fun is.
This is dangerous if not done properly, folks!
Therefore, I am very pleased to announce that I am NOW selling the sunlight diet guide...please send $20 for the informational pamphlet and user manual.
Spend the $20 today, or thousands on retinal surgery later.
Don't worry, he's eating. I saw a special on one of these guys once, and they're like Cindy Sheehan in that they don't count their various sources of actual nourishment as "food."
King?
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
Hell, anybody can do that. The sunlight just has to be processed through at least two* steps first.
*Two, because vegetables are what food eats
But mama, that's where the fun is.
Another madman drummer? Bummer!
Indians in the summer....
So will the increased solar activity and thinning ozone layer make this crazy Ukrainian get fat? I assume that this guy will become an MSM darling because he is so pure but so doomed!!!Not even people who "eat only sunlight" are safe from the twin horrors of "global warming" and the "obesity epidemic" that the Bush administration is responsible for!
Agreed. The Ghanges is IMO the equivilant of drinking from a restaurants wash basin witextra fecal matter thrown in.
You can tell he's a king. He hasn't got sh*t all over him.
Do not eat the moonlight.
Repeat.
Do not eat the moonlight!
It will give you the Green Runs!
(I know real cheesy, huh?)
Well....at least I know something causes moon-bats.
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