Mr. Jani

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Prahlad Jani (Gujarati: પ્રહલાદ જાની), also known as Mataji or Chunriwala Mataji, (born 13 August 1929) is an Indian breatharian monk who claims to have lived without food and water since 1940. He says that the goddess Amba sustains him.

Charada village in Mehsana district. According to Jani, he left his home in Gujarat at the age of seven, and went to live in the jungle.

At the age of 12, Jani underwent a spiritual experience and became a follower of the Hindu goddess Amba.

Ambika (Amba) is generally the name of Adi Shakti or Shakti, consort of Parashivam. She has eight arms, holding multiple weapons. She is also known as Bhagavati or Chandi. She is also considered to be Adi Shakti herself and Mother of the Universe as well as all beings, which is also the meaning of the name "Ambika". She is the goddess in the Skanda Purana and Devi Mahatmya who appeared from the body of Parvati and slayed the demons Shumbh and Nishumbh.

From that time, he chose to dress as a female devotee of Amba, wearing a red sari-like garment, jewellery and crimson flowers in his shoulder-length hair. Jani is commonly known as Mataji ("[a manifestation of] The Great Mother"). Jani believes that the goddess provides him a liquid sustenance or water which drops down through a hole in his palate, allowing him to live without food or drink.

Since the 1970s, Jani has lived as a hermit in a cave in the rainforest in Gujarat, awakening at 4am each day and spending most of his time meditating.

A statement from Ahmedabad's Association of Physicians says that despite no water entering his body, urine nonetheless appeared to form in his bladder - only to be re-absorbed by the bladder walls.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3236118.stm

You need food to function."[5] Nutrition researcher Peter Clifton also disagreed with study results, accusing the research team of "cheating" by allowing Jani to gargle and bathe, and stating that a human of average weight would die after "15 to 20 days" without water.[6] People who avoid food and water to emulate mystical figures often die.[6] Sanal Edamaruku characterized the experiment as a farce for allowing Jani to move out of the CCTV cameras' field of view, claiming that video footage showed Jani was allowed to receive devotees and to leave the sealed test room for sunbathing. Edamaruku also said that the gargling and bathing activities were insufficiently monitored. Edamaruku was denied access to the site where the tests were conducted in both 2003 and 2010,[3] and accuses Jani of having "influential protectors" responsible for denying him permission to inspect the project during its operation, despite having been invited to join the test during a live television broadcast.[3] The Indian Rationalist Association observed that individuals making similar claims in the past have been exposed as frauds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahlad_Jani