LIVING ON LIGHT
What would you say if I told you that I actually met someone who is literally "living on light"? Someone who says he has no need for food anymore? Someone who actually has been under medical supervision in a hospital in the US for 120 days, during which he consumed no food, only drank water and still went about his normal activities? What if he has actually, at one time, lived for 414 days without food, and then able to climb a hill to offer prayers at a temple on the top, and that too get up there faster than someone who was eating and drinking as usual?
You would think that either I was crazy or that this person was a great conman. Unfortunately, neither of these is true. I have met this person his name is Hira Ratan Manek in Bombay last wee. Let me tell you his story.
Mr. Manek is about 60 years of age. He has been researching the subject of drawing nourishment DIRECTLY from the sun, instead of getting it "second-hand" as he says, by eating plants, or "third-hand" by eating animals that eat plants. After ten years of study and experiments on himself, he has perfected a simple method that works.
His belief is that we don't need food, we need the energy food provides, which in turn it has derived either directly or indirectly from the sun. He says that if you can tap the source directly, there is no need to eat any food any more. But living without food is not the basic objective. That is only a side issue. It just happens, your hunger goes down until you no longer feel hunger or fatigue and can live without food but this is not what we are getting at. The basic objective is to live a happy, peaceful, healthy life, free of all mental ailments, tensions and physical problems and diseases. All this can be achieved by the simple expedient of sun-gazing. Of course, there is a specific method he has prescribed, that has to be followed in order to get the results and ensure that no harm is done to your eyes. Few more things are very important - The whole thing has to be done regularly i.e. every day. You can do it for 3,6 or a maximum of nine months. It should be stopped after nine months, because then it is no longer required to do it any more. - The `auto-suggestion" to be given to yourself, when you are doing it, is that the sun is the provider of energy, the divine healer and that the sun-rays are healing yourself. You must believe in this implicitly. Any skepticism or doubt will cause the system not to work - You must surrender yourself to the divine force of the sun, and let it do its work on you. You need not do anything else except surrender. This attidude of surrender, of dropping your ego, is important. You are not doing anything or getting anything out of the sun. It is giving it to you, if you surrender to it.
If you are interested in the exact method please click here or you can even email Mr. Manek directly at hiraratanmanek@yahoo.com... He travels extensively, both in India and in the US,so may not reply immediately. He has already given 60+ lectures in the US on this topic and he has been examined by the Indian Government, defence forces etc to see how this miracle is happening.
I have seen a few conmen in my life and my spiritual guide, Ganoba Date, has seen many more, including many men "pretending" to be enlightened. He came along with me to meet Mr. Manek, and he too was convinced that he is genuine. Why?
- He is not trying to sell us anything. There is no vested interest no financial involvement - He does not claim that he has done something special or that he is something special. He says we all can do what he has done, and in fact that many people have and are doing it - He freely parted with the information, on his technique, without asking for anything in return no money, no respect, no need to become his disciple nothing at all - He is not egoistic, and a very simple person. - He does not claim that he did anything, or that this process does anything. All he says that, if you surrender to this divine energy, it just happens.
So it has happened with him. He no longer feels the need for food. Ocasionally he drinks a cup of tea, coffee or buttermilk, for "hospitality purposes" when he is entertaining guests. He feels little or no fatigue, and sleeps just for a couple of hours a day. Sometimes he goes for a whole week without sleep and without ill effects. He has no bowel movements unless he has something to eat, which is very occasionally. He is normal in appearance, slim, but not very thin, his eyes and face are radiant, and he is active, living an ordinary life. Doctors have observed him and observed the phenomenon and they accept this is happening, but cannot explain it at least not as per the laws of the science they know.
Funnily enough, I wrote about Mr. Manek several months ago, in one of my earlier newsletters, when I read about him in a newspaper article. Now I was lucky enough to meet him, thanks to my friend Manju. Since I have an eye problem, he suggested an alternate method for me, which he assured me will heal my eyes, that are suffering from what has been diagnosed as an "untreatable" and "incurable" problem macular degeneration. I have started the practice and I will keep all of you posted of the progress.
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