The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-04-11
YOGA.
Iiindoos Living For Days md Months
without Food, WATER o. Air.
Northern Christian Advocated

lNoithem Christian Advocate.
For Gges the ascctics in India have
been accustomed TO practice what they
call YOga or Joga, and the school OF
Hindoo philosophers known us Yoga has
many volumes Of instruction in the vnrl-
ous degrees of this art. There are two
special and many subordinate forms Of
Yoga, and We may shy it is mental |
abstraction, or silent prayer, or the
union Of mind TO soul but materially it
u.s. i'll fact, the art Of voluntarily suspend
ing the circulation and respiration. Tho
Hindoo motive Is TO secure absorption
into the deity by this process.
The physical and material processes
are open to the interests of science il any
body can make any thing of them i'll
that direction, and we suppose they
really can. The treatise before me as
scrts that in this state the persons are
not poisoned by snake-bites, which
might prove that the circulation was
really suspended, and that snake poison
only operates by entering the circulation
Of the blood. The person remains I'M
affected by the cutting Of weapons, and
gives no symptoms Of pain when brought
in contact with fire. lie can not be
drowned when submerged in water, nor
does he dry up when exposed to air
An English surgeon, by the name OF
McGrcgor, gives the following: "a
Fnquccr who arrived at Lahore engaged
to bury himself for any length OF time,
shut mp i'll box and without either food
or drink. Ranjeet naturally disbclieycd
the mans assertions, and was determined
to put them TO the test. For this purpose
the Faqucer was shut up in a wooded
box, which was placed i'll a small apart
ment under ground; there was n folding
door to his box, which was secured by a
lock and key. Surrounding this apart
mcnt there was gardcn-house, the door
of which was likewise locked, and out
side the whole was high wall, having
its doorway built up with bricks and
mud. In order to prevent any onc iron,
approaching the place, Il line of scntric'
was placed, and relieved at regular III
, tcryals. The strictest watch was kept
up for forty days and nights. at the cx
, piration of which period the Maharojnl'
attended by his grandson and several oI
his Sirdars, os well as General Ventura,
Captain Wade and myself, proceeded tC
disntcr the Faquecr. The brick and
, mud were removed from the outer door
{ way; the door of the gardeu-housc was
, next unlocked, and lastly that Of the
wooden box containing the Faqucer
The latter was found covered with
white sheet, on removing which tn
. figure OF the man presented Itself III
y sitting posture. His hands and arm
= were pressed to his sides, and his leg
," and thighs crossed"
>. Another case is certified to by llcutcr
~ ~ ant Boilcau Of Il young man who allowc
u himself to be buried for weeks on month
u by any person who would pay him han'
u somclv for it. He WAS buried ut jaisulnt
=, - in small building about twelve i1et u
:, eight, built of stone. In the floor was
~ hole three feet long, two and hall fe
y wide and yard deep, in which he WI
=, placed scwcd up in shroud. Two heaN
- Slabs Of stone, six feet long, sever
:" inches thick and broad enough to cow
!, the mouth Of the grave, were placed ov
" him, and little earth plastercd over u
y, whole, making the surface smooth III
t. compact. The door of the mouse "
IN then built up, and guards stationed on
~ side. AZ the expiration OF month l
40 :" man was dug out, perfectly Scnscle
- His hair had not grown, his hand" We
w. crampcd and teeth so lalnmcd 'og1''
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