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Prahlad Jani, long-haired and bearded, who wore red saree robes as a worshiper of the goddess Amba and wore a female nose ring based on images of Hindu goddesses, comes from the Chadada village in western Gujarat, where he passed his life practicing yoga and meditation.
According to her husband, who was born in August 1929, she was 90 years old.
“He died early Tuesday at his residence due to old age,” one of Jan’s neighbors told AFP. “He was rushed to the hospital after midnight, but doctors found him dead there.”
Jani’s remains were taken to the famous city of Ambadi, where she built a small ashram and was called Mataji (“Great Mother [manifestacija]”).
“The remains will be kept in the ashram for two days so that people can show their last respect,” said the neighbor, adding that Jani would be cremated on Thursday.
Jani’s story that she was a blessed goddess as a child and thus able to survive without food, attracted a handful of followers who did not yield to the doubts expressed by medical professionals.
In 2003, Jani told AFP that she was receiving “an elixir of life from an opening in her palate, so that she could live without food or water.”
It was impossible to verify Jani’s statements, but doctors have said that a person cannot live long without food and water.
However, the Indian medical community was interested in him. In 2010, he was examined by a team of military doctors for two weeks in a hospital in Ahmedabad, the largest city in Gujarat.
Jani was monitored by cameras, doctors scanned her organs, brain, blood vessels, examined the heart, lungs, and memory.
They said that he did not eat, drink or walk to the bathroom, and that his only contact with the liquid was to rinse his throat and bathe periodically.
“We still don’t know how he’s going through it,” neurologist Sudhir Shah told reporters at the time. “It is still a mystery what the phenomenon is.”
The results of a study initiated by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) of the Government of India have never been published or made available to colleagues for evaluation.
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