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Englishman with a lifetime's experience in sound journalism :
BURIED ALIVE FOR THIRTY MINUTES Yogi's feat witnessed by 15,000 people
Masaliputam, Dec. 15
A remarkable feat of Yoga was exhibited by Yogi Sankara Narayanswami of Mysore on Sunday evening in front of Sri Ramalingeshwarswami's temple in the presence of a gathering of about 15,000 people. He was buried alive for about half an hour.
Lt. Col. K.V. Raman Rao, IMS, District Medical Officer, who acted as observer took a letter from the yogi before the ordeal, stating that he was performing the feat on his own responsibility.
The yogi was seated in a box specially prepared for the purpose and let down into a pit, which was covered with earth. After about half an hour, the box was removed, when the yogi was found sitting in it in a state of trance. The Yogi regained consciousness half an hour afterwards, when he was cheered by the people."
The second comes from a friend Major F. YeastBrown, who served for twenty years in the Bengal Lancers, an Indian Cavalry Regiment. He published these statements in the London Sunday Express :
"Resurrection of the dead” is a fairly common exercise in Indian magic. I have seen it done twice. The adept undergoes twenty-four hours of secret preparation, which consist in purgation, fasting and 'swallowing' air.
Before the trance state is induced, the adept is in a state of oxygen intoxication. Then, pressing his carotid arteries, he passes into unconsciousness. His disciples
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