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LIVING ON LIGHT
Jasmuheen, author and practitioner of 'Living on Light', tours India in February 2002.
Jasmuheen has spearheaded the movement of people who live only on Light (Prana).
The community of Light-eaters (Breatharians) is one which is expanding in countries across
the world, and has started drawing a lot of attention in the media. Because of her radical concept,
Jasmuheen has received media coverage in support of, as well as against, her teaching.
Of course, a lot of Indian saints and gurus have professed the powers of 'prana' for centuries.
indiayogi presents you a section of the 'Light Ambassadry Research - Living on Light (January 2001)'
by Jasmuheen, which is most interesting. It concerns a press write-up of Hira Ratan Manek, a Jain from
India fasting for 411 days, and drawing nourishment only from solar energy. Following this article is Jasmuheen's
letter presenting her views and response on the same. Click here to read the press write-up. Click here to read
Jasmuheen's views.
For details on Jasmuheen's India tour, click here.
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Given below are a few statements made by Jasmuheen.
Jasmuheen - Excerpts:
"So much has happened over the last 5 years since the living on light phenomena hit the global stage. With over
10,000 individuals now allowing the Divine to feed them, plus many more in the Qigong community who exist in the
state of Bigu, the idea that the Divine can not just love, guide and heal us, but also feed us, is slowly being accepted.
As the ability to live on light is completely related to a person's daily lifestyle, the actual 21 day initiation that I talk
about in my book "Living on Light" has become passé as more and more holistic living practitioners find themselves
eating light. Our research has found that the long term practice of meditation, prayer, programming, vegetarian diet,
exercise, service, silence in nature and the use of Mantras and devotional songs, expand a person's consciousness,
thus allowing them to exist in the zone of the Divine where so much more than normal reality is possible. We call this 8
point program the Luscious Lifestyles Program - or L.L.P. - and it is basically designed to tune into the frequency
where living on light is no longer a miracle.
Due to the power of the media, we have been able to talk about Divine Power, the Source that feeds us, to more
than 6 million in less than 3 years, although the media has not always been supportive.
While the personal and global benefits of pranic nourishment are obvious, living on light is still not a sociably acceptable lifestyle
and many light eaters choose to be very selective regarding who they share this information with. Also as you can't hide the fact
that you do not eat from family and friends, you need to realize that to many, living free from the need for food as we know it is an
absolutely impossible reality, yet to those who have experienced the power of the Divine, miracles happen daily."
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Times of India | 30 Dec. 2000
Engineer uses sun to claim victory over hunger
- By A Staff Reporter
AHMEDABAD: Can the human body turn into a photovoltaic cell and covert the rays of the sun into energy?
Sixty-four-year-old retired mechanical engineer Hira Ratan Manek claims it can. For the past 364 days, he claims
he has not swallowed a single morsel of solid, living only on some boiled water and the star closest from the earth.
"We humans live primarily on secondary solar energy as the plants which we consume depend heavily on the sun to
grow," Manek, a Kutchi living in Coimbatore, says. "All you need to do is learn to absorb from the primary source of solar energy."
To ensure that Manek's story does not sound like a fairy tale, there are an array of doctors from the Health Care International Multitherapy Institute
and the Jain Doctors Association who have been monitoring his health from two days before the fast started, which will last up to February 15 to complete 411 days.
The method of becoming a solar cooker is quite simple. According to Manek, you start by looking straight into the rising morning sun for only a few seconds.
Slowly you increase the time to minutes reachin up to 30 to 35 minutes. "If you do it gradually, your eyes will not be damaged and help in charging your brain
with solar energy."
Manek adds that once you go above 15 minutes, your desire for food slowly diminishes. "It is victory over hunger, not its suppression.
" At 30 to 35 minutes, the human brain starts developing the capacity to store solar energy. "All you need to do is take a walk barefoot for about
40 to 45 minutes in the sun everyday to recharge the energy." Claims Manek, "Only through this process can man achieve complete freedom or Moksha.
You rid yourself from physical and psychological ailments. Psychosomatic ailments out of stress become a distant dream. But more importantly you develop
a corona of energy around you. As this energy field becomes stronger, diseases don't harm you. Even your worst enemy will become harmless."
Eminent neuro-physician Sudhir Shah, who has been monitoring Manek's health with a team of doctors, says, "What we have is not 100 per cent science,
but hypothesis. However, we believe that this is a chronic case of adaptation syndrome where the body reduces its demand for energy after 16 to 30 days of
fasting. This is done by downing the regulation of receptors."
Shah does not rule out the possibility that the temporal lobe in the human brain, which is believed to control parapsychic activity like the sixth sense,
may have been activated due to this process. All other parts of the brain including the hypothalamus, the pituitary glands and the medulla oblongata have
shown no signs of changing.
For Manek, a Shwetambar Jain, the fast has both religious and scientific connotations. "All this search for a microchip to insert in the human
brain to store loads of information and increase memory is ridiculous," he says. "We don't even use 10 per cent of it. But once charged, its
capacity is increase manifold. In fact, enlightenment in spiritual terms is nothing but 100 per cent use of the brain!"
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THE LIGHT AMBASSADRY'S RESPONSE TO THIS RESEARCH
Sent to 'The Hindu' and 'The Times of India' - January 2001
4th January 2001,
To whom it may concern,
In response to the recent article in The Times of India, on 30 December 2000, titled 'Engineer Uses Sun
to Claim Victory Over Hunger' written by the staff reporter, I would like to share the following information ...
Firstly, I was most fascinated to have this article sent to me about Hira Ratan Manek who, for the past 365 days,
has not had any solid food and has instead existed for this time on prana and absorbing this energy from the sun.
I would like to share that this has actually been my field of research for the last thirty-five years. For the past seven of those
years, I too have been pranically fed by light. Over the last few years, I have researched over a hundred people who 'eat' prana,
and have also found fascinating research done by the Chinese qigong masters, the 20 year study done by Austrian doctor Karl
Graninger, as well as the work done by my colleagues of the M.A.P.S. Light Ambassadry. All this data is in my book "Ambassadors
of Light - World Health World Hunger Project".
There is now so much research to substantiate that people can indeed be fed by this alternative nourishment source that we
call prana. Hence, this ancient ability has the potential to eliminate all world hunger and have a huge long term impact on our
global resources. We have also discovered in our research that seventy per cent of our nourishment can actually come via our
breath. The basis of this research comes from the yogis and the ancient Vedic tradition, as all who choose to live on light practise
a very refined spiritual lifestyle which enhances the whole of our being. We estimate that there are at least ten thousand 'prana'
eaters in the world currently.
I am coming to India on the 3rd of February 2002 to share my research and our solution to world health/world
hunger issues, for as M.A.P.S. Ambassadors, myself and my colleagues have dedicated our time and our lives
to the harmonisation of the systems on earth. Using a simple Recipe that also allows us to be fed by prana power,
we envisage the elimination of all war, violence, social injustice, dis-ease, poverty and starvation within the next decade.
We believe that provided our research is taken seriously, this is very possible.
Support is gathering for this work that continues on from Gandhi and all the work of the Holy Ones on earth.
As eternal students of the Higher Light Science, we have discovered that this simple and free Recipe is not just easy
to apply, but is powerful enough to achieve each of the above. Hence, I would be honoured to gift this Recipe to India and
the world, via the media in your country.
In kind regards
Jasmuheen
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