Jain Digest 2003 09 Vol 22 No 3

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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Interview with
Hira Ratan Manck (HRM) on his Journey with Solar Nutrition
(Editors Note: An interview between HRM and author Jasmuheen is reproduced. Jasmuheen has taken this interview for TEV Readers in August 2003. Readers may remember HRM, a write up about him was published in Fall 2002 isssue of Jain Digest.) TEV: Welcome to TEV where we have shared previously the findings of Dr Sudhir Shah and his team and the research they conducted with you. As a pioneer of solar nourishment in the West, can you share a little about your own journey and how you came to be interested in this type of nutrition? HRM: I was hinted at this first by mother of Aurobindo ashram in pondicherry in 1962 but I did not take it seriously than but it was in my mind and I so developed a special interest on sun. Being
jain I got inspired in this sun energy by Lord Mahavirs fasting of 12 years and six months and I critically studied him and got inspired by his looking at the sun and walking barefoot in hot sun. When I went deep into his teachings I found his technique of "AATAP" which meant receiving sunshine to raise oneself to higher and higher levels. This belief on sun energy was further strenghthened by autobiography of Yogananda where he is making mention of few people living on sun energy and especially of yogibala who survived for 50 years without food on sun energy. Yogibala said "sun energy was entering the brain through a secret door" and she was able to sustain but she refused to disclose further. In 1922 Imperial Medical College felt that solar radiation was the original food of humanity and what we eat is a secondary form and someday somebody will prove how man can live directly on solar energy. All this excited and strengthened my belief in sun energy but I got break through finally from GAYATRIMANTRA which suggests that man must allow solar rays to enter the body; get it stored and illuminate the
dormant brain. Yes if brain which is largely dormant can be activated with sun energy all human crisis will be overcome was the strong idea that went into me and from what I understood from lord Mahavir, Gayatrimantra, Yogananda's books, sun-dances of native Americans, Egyptian beliefs in sun I was able to revive an age old practise of sungazing or SURYANAMASKAR or the present HRM Phenomina. As a matter of fact entire humanity was on sun food(microfood) at the beginning and slowly we changed over to secondary source of food(plants). But at all times of human history many have lived on sun energy but I am unique only to the extent that I volunteered before medical science for round the clock supervision and observations. I do not claim that I have found out how to live on sun energy because it was already there but forgotten and I have only revived it and proved it before science. Human history has recorded several people who have lived on sun energy from time to time. This is in short, my inspiration for surviving on sun energy. I repeat, I have not
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discovered what is now known as hrm phenomina. It is only revival of a forgotten practise, a practise which many practised from time to time.
TEV: Can you provide for our readers some of what you feel are the personal benefits of being able to receive our nourishment directly through the vortex of the sun?
HRM: Sun benefits us in all ways and it solves all our problems. It enables one to harmonize and recharge the body with life energy and also awaken the unlimited powers of the mind very easily. It
easily enables one to liberate from threefold sufferings i.e. mental illness physical illness and spiritual ignorances.
TEV: Do you feel that a person who does not lead a
spiritual type lifestyle that maybe includes kindness and compassion to others, meditation, prayer and things like chanting, would still be able to receive enough nourishment via the sun so that they can let off taking nutrition via the usual food sources?
HRM: yes, this is very nice question. Just as a coin has two sides, nature has gifted us with both good and bad qualities. In the absence of sun energy reaching the brain we develop evil qualities and the moment sun energy starts reaching there evil qualities disappear and good qualities that are hidden come on the surface and the practitioner from the devil becomes divine. We all experience that in the absence of sunlight climate also becomes awful and there is dirt and germs on the increase all around us and as the sun comes everything gets purified. Nobody likes dull day because we are all depressed. Sun purifies everything on earth and so a person also and the tranformation takes place easily and automatically. Devil to divine through sun.
TEV: Although we know in esoteric circles that our sun
is a grid point and cosmic disperser of very pure and powerful Divine energies, if people can absorb all their nourishment from gazing into the sun each dawn and dusk, what about on days where we cannot see the sun as it is too cloudy and stormy, how do solar feeders get their nourishment then? Is there anything else that you recommend that people do?
HRM:Even if the sun is not seen, energy of the sun is there always in a lessened form. Once you activate the human brain by 9 months sun gazing practise and then become a permanent solarium or solarcooker by barefoot walking for a year everything afterwards is easy and HRM phenomina describes in detail how one can become permanently charged with sun energy in about 2 years time and that too easily. I have my own website with this phenomina www.solathealing.com. Kindly go through it and anybody can write to me in case of doubts or difficulties in understanding.
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