A collaboration between science and religion in India is putting
to the test a holy man's claim to have eaten and drunk nothing for
70 years.
Prahlad Jani is a sadhu, a Hindu ascetic mystic, in his 80s, who
says he last drank water at the age of twelve. He was given the
gift by the goddess Ambaji, and is sustained by amrita,
the nectar of the Hindu gods, which passes into his head from the
air.
'Although I walk a hundred, 200 km in the jungle,' he told ...
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