🌹 The Woman Yogi Who Never Eats
GIRI BALA, NON-EATING SAINT She employs a certain yogic technique to recharge her body with cosmic energy from the ether, sun, and air. “I have never been sick,” the saint said……..
“Tell me, Mother, from your own lips— do you live without food?”
“That is true.” She was silent for a few moments; her next remark showed that she had been struggling with mental arithmetic. “From the age of twelve years four months down to my present age of sixty-eight — a period of over fifty-six years — I have not eaten food or taken liquids.” “Are you never tempted to eat?”
“If I felt a craving for food, I would have to eat.” Simply yet regally she stated this axiomatic truth, one known too well by a world revolving around three meals a day!
“But you do eat something!” My tone held a note of remonstrance.
“Of course!” She smiled in swift understanding.
“Your nourishment is derived from the finer energies of the air and sunlight, and from the cosmic power that recharges your body through the medulla oblongata.”
“Baba knows.” Again she acquiesced, her manner soothing and unemphatic……
Paramahansa Yogananda
In
” Autobiography of Yogi ”
Image – Giri Bala from Autobiography of Yogi.
