Lalitpur, December 16:

Sounds amazing, but it’s true.

Spectators were amazed as a woman appeared above the ground today, putting to an end a 15-day ‘meditation’ or a Bhumi Tapasya session.

According to Dr Yogi Bikashananda, the founder of the Manokranti Meditation, Sudha Devkota, aka Shree Gamh, practiced the 15-day mediation by confining herself to a nine-feet-deep pit without even taking water. “Every day, she had to stay even without air for 12 hours. She did not even drink water for the first 80 hours of meditation,” he said. “Her feat has given yoga a new dimension,” he said, adding that he had taken the risk to bury her underground.

Narrating her ‘experience’, Devkota said: “Fifteen days passed like 15 hours.”

“I feel a bit weak, but my body and soul is all leapt up high,” she said after emerging out of the pit and having a glass of juice.

She had planned to stay in the pit just for three days.

“Days and night were just the same for me. I felt blessed during my meditation session.” She said her body never craved for food.

She blessed the spectators. “I will make use of the knowledge of Manokranti,” said Lahana Karmacharya, a student who was among those ‘blessed’. “Her blessings calmed my mind.”

Referring to Devkota’s feat, Balaram Rai, a native of Khotang, said science might not be

able to explain the feat in the near future.

“I believe we can even beat the nature if we try hard,” he said. “Too much faith turns us into servants,” he said, adding: “It undermines many fights that were waged the world over to rid human beings of slavery.”

“Bhumi Tapasya makes an individual more assertive and self-confident. It is not related to any religion or faith. It is pure meditation,” Bikashananda said.