YOGA DEMONSTRATION
INDIAN BURIED ALIVE FOR 15 MINUTES
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(Received 21st June, 10 a.m.) CAPETOWN, 20th June.
A twenty-five-year-old Indian, Yashpal, son of a rich landowner, was buried alive for fifteen minutes at Durban as a Yoga demonstration to raise money to build a Vedic church at Durban. Yashpal removed his sandals, enveloped himself in a rich gown, and descended into a hole after signing an indemnity. 'The hole was covered with boards, sacks and earth a foot deep. When removed Yashpal was found motionless and crosslegged, normality returning in a minute. Yashpal claims that he can remain buried for twentyeight hours.
Yoga is an Indian philosophical system aiming at separation of the senses from earthly existence through mediation and asceticism, The Yogi, followers of the Yoga, by a process of selfhypnotism combined with severest form of asceticism, attain powers that are apparently supernatural.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 21 June 1937, Page 5
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