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> The first was named Vimalananda, and he is the subject of the two
"Aghora" books (both fascinating books, by the way), by Robert Svoboda. I didn't
> have time to look it up in the book, so let me give you the info from
memory. Vimalananda was on a mono-diet of milk when he was young, for 2-3 years
or so (that's raw cow's milk). Then he switched to a mono-diet of soaked
> chickpeas for around a year, which was followed by 2 years on raw, green
> chili (hot!!) peppers. He not only survived, but thrived on this. (I
>don't understand why the peppers didn't burn him up - I wouldn't last one meal
>on a mono-diet of hot peppers).
Only problem: Vimalananda's health appeared to be quite poor during most of
his life. The chain smoking certainly didn't help either. Physical health wasn't his
priority anyway: Vimalananda's brand of Tantra, "Agora", preached that
physical health and spiritual health were mutually incompatible, and that to
fortify the latter, one had to sacrifice the three "obstacles": sleep, food and sex.
(Agora is unlike mainstream Tantra, which goes to great extents to
cultivate a healthy body: ex: Hatha Yoga being one of the creations of Tantrik yoga.)
Regards,
Roy
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