He was born August 13th, 1929 in the Indian village of Charada (or ''Charod'') in Mehsana district/Gujarat. According to a legend, he left home when he was seven years old and wandered around. At age of eleven (according to other sources eight) he made some sort of „supernatural experience“ that completely changed his life. He allegedly lost every desire for eating and drinking and was not required to defecate or urinate ever since. He also was never ill, but was brought in a Jaslok hospital for unknown reasons in 1942 (obviously without his consent), where he stayed 45 days. According to this legend, he stopped speaking and did not talk for 45 years (Maunbrat practice). | He was born August 13th, 1929 in the Indian village of Charada (or ''Charod'') in Mehsana district/Gujarat. According to a legend, he left home when he was seven years old and wandered around. At age of eleven (according to other sources eight) he made some sort of „supernatural experience“ that completely changed his life. He allegedly lost every desire for eating and drinking and was not required to defecate or urinate ever since. He also was never ill, but was brought in a Jaslok hospital for unknown reasons in 1942 (obviously without his consent), where he stayed 45 days. According to this legend, he stopped speaking and did not talk for 45 years (Maunbrat practice). |