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[bprlist] Engineer uses sun to claim victory over hunger

 

 

> Times of India | 30 Dec. 2000

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> Engineer uses sun to claim victory over hunger

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> By A Staff Reporter

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> 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 reaching 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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> http://www.timesofindia.com/today/30mahm7.htm

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