- 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.
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- "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."
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- 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.
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- 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."
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- 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."
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- 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."
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- 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."
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- 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.
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- 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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