This program discusses
the possibility of
breatharianism, or living
without eating food, and
is not a full instruction.
For your safety,
please do not attempt to
cease eating without
proper expert guidance.
For your safety,
please do not attempt to
cease eating without
proper expert guidance.
Today’s Between
Master and Disciples –
“OberomC. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism”
– will be presented
in Portuguese
with subtitles in Arabic,
Aulacese (Vietnamese),
Bulgarian, Chinese,
Czech-Slovak, English,
French, German,
Hindi, Hungarian,
Indonesian, Italian,
Japanese, Korean,
Malay, Mongolian,
Persian, Polish,
Portuguese, Punjabi,
Russian, Spanish,
and Thai.
In scriptures,
the human body
is often referred to
as the temple of God.
Yet, it is quite
an uncommon privilege
for any soul to
attain this sacred abode
that houses the Divine,
as it is truly a blessing
to be reborn
as a human being.
On several occasions,
Supreme Master Ching Hai
has spoken about the rarity
of this phenomenon:
To be reincarnated in
the human world is hard.
You have to have
enough Human Quality.
You have to have
affinity with the parents
and with the society,
with the people around
which you are born.
Very difficult.
To be a human,
you need some merit.
You have done
something good
in the past
in order to be able
to pick a human birth.
As a living temple of God,
the human body
is fully equipped
with miraculous wonders
that can be awakened
in those who
are spiritually conscious
and have complete faith
in the Creator of all life.
Inedia,
Latin for “fasting,”
is the human ability
to live without food.
Since time immemorial,
there have always been
individuals who
can sustain themselves
on prana,
or the vital life force.
Through the grace of
the Providence, inediates,
people who follow
a food-free lifestyle,
can draw the energy
from nature
to nourish themselves:
They live on the chi
from the ground,
or from the forest,
and from the sun
and from the air.
They make use
of all that.
Or they live on love,
on faith alone.
These individuals are
known as breatharians (pranarians or inediates),
solarians, or waterians,
and they come from
all walks of life, from
different cultures, and
all corners of the world.
Indeed, the possibilities
and miracles in this life
as our benevolent Creator
has designed for us
are endless;
we only need to connect
within to recognize
our abounding largess
as God’s children.
Supreme Master Ching Hai
has lovingly
recommended
a weekly series on
Supreme Master Television
to introduce
those individuals
of the past and present
who have chosen to
live food-free on Earth.
May their spiritual stories
enthrall you;
may hearts be opened,
and horizons be expanded.
We now invite you
to join us for part 1
of our 4-part program,
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism,”
on Between Master
and Disciples.
Greetings,
conscientious viewers.
Today we visit the vast
and multifaceted country
of Brazil
in Latin America to
speak with Oberom Silva,
a big-hearted breatharian
who has a profound
respect for life.
Oberom has been food-free
for nine years.
I realize that
the vibrational pattern
that enters the body
when you eat
some physical element,
if you are
in a sustained happiness,
it does not vary.
If you're caught up
in the daily dramas
of being a victim,
of control, of fear,
of suffering –
all that you place
inside you interferes
with your vibration.
You become
totally vulnerable
to external vibrations,
the outdoor vibrations.
And it’s the same
for the environments
that you hang out in,
the companions
that you have, your
entertainment, television
– everything will bring
that dense vibration,
each more inferior
and will also undermine
our energy, and each time
that we are linked,
we are caught
in this circuit of survival,
of hunger,
of the need to eat.
And this also
applies to food.
If you eat low-frequency
food, of death, pain,
suffering, violence, fear,
you are entering
the vibration
of these elements,
which are very dense,
very low vibrations.
So it's hard for you
to live this happiness –
I'm talking about this
continuous happiness,
this awareness
of being happy.
You live moments of joy
here and there and then
enter again into
this rollercoaster of
sensations and feelings.
So the main idea that I see,
even for the purpose
of pranic consciousness,
is that the people
are established
in the consciousness –
no longer the ego
creating structures,
creating games.
Thus you can get out
of this ego mechanism
of living in the past,
living in the future,
transiting
through pleasures,
just watching and being
happy with everything,
being thankful
in the energy of gratitude,
which is sublime.
Gratitude is divine.
It brings this
unlimited vibration,
a vibration of God.
Influenced
by his upbringing,
Oberom leads
a very active lifestyle,
one in which
he dedicates his time
and effort to enhance
the lives of others
in his local as well as
global, community.
I was born into
an alternative community,
to a lifestyle that is
oriented toward
self-knowledge.
I was born at home
in a natural manner –
no allopathic medicines –
no white sugar, no TV,
without any meat.
Everything without effort,
everything educated
in a way,
as they were explained
by my parents, and
as they were understood
by us, it was not
a deficiency.
I had a regular education.
I graduated
in physical education.
Now I am doing
postgraduate studies on yoga.
I work mainly
with the dissemination
and clarification
of what is
pranic consciousness
in Brazil and globally.
I am an activist
for vegetarianism,
not only on the streets
but also focusing
on that part of education
and enlightenment
with students,
whether in the academic
or mainstream schools.
I wrote a book titled
“Travelling on Light,”
which reports
my experience of
a spiritual pilgrimage
between Europe
and India that lasted
nine months between.
And currently,
I’m working
on the publication
of these books.
I am a yoga teacher.
I do that during the week.
I work. I’m also
an administrator of
an ecological NGO
called, MADRE –
that means Friend of
Ecological Diversity
and Regeneration.
I'm also part of
the ABRASCA council,
which is the Brazilian
Association of
Alternative Community,
where we have a regular
attendance at meetings
and for activities
related to the proposals
of alternative living.
In addition, the work
with agroforestry,
permaculture,
bioconstruction are part
of my day-to-day
activities as well.
Also,
my personal activity is
to maintain my being
so that I am always
vibrating on this energy
that is good for everyone,
which does good
for the planet, which is
happiness and love.
Oberom’s passion
to promote
the compassionate,
plant-based diet stemmed
from an unexpected
encounter.
Actually, the beginning
of my story as an activist
of vegetarianism
comes from
reading the book,
“The Key to
Immediate Enlightenment,”
by Master Ching Hai.
There is this question of
holistic compassion as well,
in addition to
the different religious
lines that also compose
this understanding,
compassion,
respect to these beings
who are so pure.
So this gave me
encouragement to
inform people in a way of
being the spokesperson
of these beings who speak,
but in a language
that the human density
today cannot understand.
So I felt compelled
and very encouraged,
actually, by the way
she puts it, and now
this is what I work with.
I divide my time,
and sometimes
the time is very short.
I return home from
my tasks and stay up late
at night, answering
e-mails that come from
all over the world,
with questions,
with requests for books.
And although it is so rushed,
often very demanding,
I have the perception
and feeling of this
peaceful consciousness
that I'm doing my dharma.
So this book,
“The Key to
Immediate Enlightenment,”
by Master Ching Hai,
I use it a lot to bring
this understanding
to other people.
At that time I did not know
where it came from,
as well as how to contact
this reference of
a conscious being
in our dimension, which
is a privilege for us.
And then, in 2006,
at the first Brazilian
and Latin American
Vegetarian Congress
in Sao Paulo,
there was a booth of
Master Ching Hai,
and there we approached,
my brother and I.
We approached because
we had this history of
being deeply involved
in activism, the cause
about animal liberation.
I can say that
it was all wonderful.
Everything happened
at the right time,
in accurate measurement,
and will always be
a reference to me
not only as a good memory,
but as a point, a source,
in which I know I can
lean on in a moment
of imbalance,
in a moment of doubt
without any fear.
It was also another
chance encounter that
opened up for Oberom
the possibility of
living solely on prana,
the cosmic energy.
I was born into a family
of seekers,
so my brothers and I
were raised without meat.
We never consumed meat
in our lives,
despite the disapproval
from relatives, teachers,
the society.
We grew up to be stronger,
healthier, without
allopathic medicine, and
with similar productivity,
and sometimes better,
than others
in our age group.
So this part of nutrition
we always had.
It has always been okay
with us to not eat meat,
of not feeding off
the pain and suffering.
Moreover, the perception
that we could evolve
in this direction
was always there.
Thus, we did away with
the lacto-vegetarian diet
for a more conscious diet,
which is the vegan diet.
From that
came a realization that
the quantity of what we
eat equals the amount
of energy that we spend
to digest the materials
that we consume.
So the highlight of this
story for all of us was
when the book appeared,
“Living on Light,” by the
Australian Jasmuheen,
in which she mentions
an initiation process,
a spiritual initiation,
of 21 days where there is
a conversion of
our belief system
for this unlimited field
and divine beings that
we are – a watershed
where you you find yourself,
where you recognize
the divine being
that you are – and it is
from this consciousness
that we are nurtured
by God Himself,
that we are awakened
to this happiness that
I sustain until today.
Since 2001, it has been
nine years living
in this blessing that
increasingly stimulates
in us a spontaneous
feeling of gratitude,
which brings even more
blessings, more
abundance, prosperity,
for our lives.
So the greatest force
that we had,
was the relationship
with Yogananda’s
“Autobiography of a Yogi”
– my father was already
a devotee of Yogananda
ever since I was born.
So the stories of
Theresa Neumann,
Giri Bala, Babaji, various
yogis who bilocate,
who communicate
telepathically – all of this
were bedtime stories
so we had always thought
of them as being real.
Our belief system
in this aspect has always
been to accept all this,
but of course, within
a perception that it
(living on prana)
was for enlightened yogis
of the Himalayas and not
for mere mortals like us,
until the book arrived
and changed everything
since the book mentions
Yogananda.
So I had a strong
identification
with all what the author
suggested in the book’s
description,
of this possibility.
Thank you,
open-minded viewers,
for your company
for this episode of
Between Master
and Disciples.
Join us again
next Sunday when we
continue with part 2 of
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism.”
Coming up next is
Good People, Good Works,
after Noteworthy News.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
Joyously, we wish you
the blissfulness of a new
awakening every day.
For more information
about Oberom
and his work,
please contact:
Literature
on Living Food-free
Meet Oberom,
a breatharian from Brazil.
As a young man of
17 years of age
at that time,
it was truly fantastic;
also the benefits that
the imagination
created about
the non-eating factor.
About the second
and third week,
I saw God in everything.
Everything was love,
I wanted to
embrace everything.
Tune in to
Supreme Master Television
on Sunday, January 23,
for our program,
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism,”
on Between Master
and Disciples.
Tune in to
Supreme Master Television
today for our program,
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism,”
on Between Master
and Disciples.
This program discusses
the possibility of
breatharianism, or living
without eating food, and
is not a full instruction.
For your safety,
please do not attempt to
cease eating without
proper expert guidance.
For your safety,
please do not attempt to
cease eating without
proper expert guidance.
Today’s Between
Master and Disciples –
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism”
– will be presented
in Portuguese
with subtitles in Arabic,
Aulacese (Vietnamese),
Bulgarian, Chinese,
Czech-Slovak, English,
French, German,
Hindi, Hungarian,
Indonesian, Italian,
Japanese, Korean,
Malay, Mongolian,
Persian, Polish,
Portuguese, Punjabi,
Russian, Spanish,
and Thai.
In scriptures,
the human body
is often referred to
as the temple of God.
Yet, it is quite
an uncommon privilege
for any soul to
attain this sacred abode
that houses the Divine,
as it is truly a blessing
to be reborn
as a human being.
On several occasions,
Supreme Master Ching Hai
has spoken about the rarity
of this phenomenon:
To be reincarnated in
the human world is hard.
You have to have
enough Human Quality.
You have to have
affinity with the parents
and with the society,
with the people around
which you are born.
Very difficult.
To be a human,
you need some merit.
You have done
something good
in the past
in order to be able
to pick a human birth.
As a living temple of God,
the human body
is fully equipped
with miraculous wonders
that can be awakened
in those who
are spiritually conscious
and have complete faith
in the Creator of all life.
Inedia,
Latin for “fasting,”
is the human ability
to live without food.
Since time immemorial,
there have always been
individuals who
can sustain themselves
on prana,
or the vital life force.
Through the grace of
the Providence, inediates,
people who follow
a food-free lifestyle,
can draw the energy
from nature
to nourish themselves:
They live on the chi
from the ground,
or from the forest,
and from the sun
and from the air.
They make use
of all that.
Or they live on love,
on faith alone.
These individuals are
known as breatharians (pranarians or inediates),
solarians, or waterians,
and they come from
all walks of life, from
different cultures, and
all corners of the world.
Indeed, the possibilities
and miracles in this life
as our benevolent Creator
has designed for us
are endless;
we only need to connect
within to recognize
our abounding largess
as God’s children.
Supreme Master Ching Hai
has lovingly
recommended
a weekly series on
Supreme Master Television
to introduce
those individuals
of the past and present
who have chosen to
live food-free on Earth.
May their spiritual stories
enthrall you;
may hearts be opened,
and horizons be expanded.
We now invite you
to join us for part 2
of our 4-part program,
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism,”
on Between Master
and Disciples.
Greetings,
generous viewers.
Today,
we return once again to
the vast and multifaceted
country of Brazil
in Latin America to
speak with Oberom Silva,
a big-hearted breatharian
who has a profound
respect for life.
Oberom has been
food-free for nine years.
Growing up in a family
that respects life wherein
all members adhere
to this principle through
their plant-based dietary
lifestyle, Oberom was
receptive very early on
to the more exalted
values of human life.
My parents came from
São Paulo, the capital,
a metropolis recognized
today as a center
for opportunities,
and discovered that
it did not fit
with what they saw
as being true to continue
the path of life,
which they understood
as a goal to be incarnated
here and it went far
beyond having a good job,
good salary…
of everything that people
are looking for there.
So they decided to go
to the countryside,
to the south of Minas Gerais,
to have a family far away
from the principles of
competition, of fear...
All the children,
and not few in number,
follow the same ideal,
have the same perception
of life, of the world,
toward work, love…
to stimulate the love
in our daily life with people.
Not so much
as to talk about love
but live the love and
understand that our
example speaks much
louder than our words.
So when we encountered
the pranic consciousness
or living on light
back then, it was
a general recognition,
for the whole family.
After Oberom’s mother
started the transition
toward living on prana,
her physical transformation
was a wonder to behold.
So my mother went
through the pranic process
with all the beliefs,
which were reflected
in her process.
Six months later,
my brother, a year younger,
entered the process
two days after
I went through the process.
Two weeks later,
my sister started the process;
two days after that
my father began the process.
Four processes, and
my mother was assisting.
It was very strong for her
because she's a nurturing
kind of person,
and suddenly she was
seeing that in some way,
the natural function
was cut off.
And we saw that
somehow was changed
going through
with her process,
because at the time
when she went through
the transitioning process,
she was a woman,
a mother of six children
with forty-some years…
stressed.
The stress reflected
on her body:
she had more weight,
looked tired, low on energy
but always very spiritual
and everything, but she
lacked this blessing.
So when she did it
(transitioning
to breatharianism), she
simply became beautiful,
externally and internally.
You could see in the eyes
this change.
And I joked
that I don’t have
a boring mom anymore,
and instead gained a cool,
older sister.
Seeing the amazing
changes in his mother
after she had adopted
the food-free lifestyle,
Oberom, along with other
members of his family,
decided to undergo
the transitioning process
as well.
So this relationship
of being connected
to the umbilical cord,
we became more close
knit in love, and this,
the process itself,
it was like a large
experiment in our case,
because some time later,
a brother did the process,
at 14 years of age
and then a another sister
did the process,
at thirteen years old.
So there were several
family members,
except the little one
who also wanted to do it
but was stopped
from doing it, that was
living that experience.
So it was interesting
for us to see ourselves
as test tubes, because
there is no manual
that describes
when this happens,
you have to do that.
Then there was that issue
of internalization,
of silence and realization,
hearing the answers
coming from within.
We know that
the consciousness
accesses everything;
it is everything.
So it was very interesting
that we awakened more
of these things which
we believe: “we are one,”
“we create our reality” –
all these clichés,
we live it in practice.
Truly!
We made the body's cells
realize this, that it’s not
just a beautiful theory.
While undergoing
the 21-day transition
process to breatharianism,
Oberom was already
experiencing
some physical benefits.
However, it was
the divine connection
that was the driving force
for his determination
to live on prana.
My diet before was
based on volume,
but always observing
the non-suffering.
Of course, I didn’t know
that a lactose diet is very
similar to the suffering
of animals,
maybe due to ignorance.
I feel I've passed through
without suffering,
but in ignorance.
When we heard about
this possibility,
for me it was a strong
possibility of gaining
this experience of really
feeling that I am nourished
by God.
That was very strong
for me.
As a young man of
17 years of age at that time,
it was truly fantastic;
also the benefits that
the imagination created
about the non-eating factor.
I was an athlete,
which I stopped during
my 21-day period,
and more or less
about a month and a half,
actually three months,
of recovering,
re-establishing myself,
until three months later
I had two pounds more
than I had before the process,
but in muscle mass,
and spare energy to
return to a handball court,
to run 8,7 miles
in Minas Gerais, riding a bike
uphill and downhill
as training,
and to do capoeira
and athletic activities,
just drinking juice,
and living on prana
three times a week
and doing all that.
So it motivated me a lot.
It was a very strong
motivation,
but the main one,
which is the same
for the whole family,
is this possibility
to be closer to God
or this consciousness.
This was the biggest
motivation really.
The 21-day process was
a journey of self-discovery
for Oberom, one in which
the experience left
a deep and unforgettable
impression.
How was this process
of 21 days,
do you have any
interesting memory that
you can comment on?
You see, the process
was very smooth.
What draws the most
attention as well,
from what I recall…
I actually
have a good memory
with respect to it.
Various details,
for example the first week,
spending 24 hours
wide awake and learning
how to deal with it;
realizing the patterns
of the ego, discerning
where the ego is,
where is the conscience;
moving away
from the command
of the ego, of the future
and past that brought
suffering in that situation,
and entering the moment
where there was suffering.
Learning this through
practical experience
makes all the difference.
So this was
a great school.
And another thing that
calls a lot of attention
and which is
worth mentioning is
that about the second
and third week,
I saw God in everything.
Everything was love,
I wanted to
embrace everything.
Sometimes people
say this is a releasing of
endorphin – it could be,
but the issue is that I saw
everything more colorful,
and the experience
of being filled with love
and happiness
was very clear.
The transitioning process
for Oberom
became challenging
after an initial period
of smooth sailing.
My first day without
eating anything was
before the process;
my preparation
was on a Sunday.
One day I woke up ready
to eat absolutely nothing,
but with all my
mental patterns about
what could happen.
Said and done,
I had a day
with a little headache,
sometimes feeling weak,
and I woke up the next day
with almost no strength
to get out of bed.
In contrast to
the transitioning process,
when I started the process,
my first day seemed like
a normal day,
my second day
seemed to be normal,
my third day seemed like
a normal day.
On my fourth day,
the issue of sleep started
to bother me and I began
to realize my strong ego
on the fourth day.
Then the issue of food,
from my first days
of my process –
very, very smooth.
I had the experience of food
as a vehicle of
emotional fulfillment,
a valve when our
emotional field is shaken,
and I had a break
in a relationship and
I did not stop to observe,
did not stop to connect
or to surround myself
with this consciousness
of who I am.
I entered inside the ego,
going deep into the ego
and I said,
“It is up to you,”
and he (the ego) punished
me with feelings
that he’d like to have.
So it was a time
after three years living
within that consciousness,
I found myself eating
to fill an emotional hole,
and it was a very
cool experience,
looking back today,
because
my physical endurance
dropped immediately.
In the beginning,
I had a cold immediately
after going back
to eating solids.
I felt more dense
to the subtle perceptions.
My thoughts were invasive,
messy, noisy,
and this stirred up in my
behavior as a person.
So it was a worthwhile
experience, and today
I learned a lot from it.
It has been a pleasure
to have your charming
presence for this episode
of Between Master
and Disciples.
Join us again next Sunday
when we continue
with part 3 of
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism.”
Coming up next is
Good People, Good Works,
after Noteworthy News.
Please stay tuned to
Supreme Master
Television.
With gratefulness,
may our planet and
all beings continue to be
immersed in Heaven’s
boundless mercy.
For more information
about Oberom
and his work,
please contact:
Literature
on Living Food-free
Oberom Silva is
a teacher, author,
council member of
the Brazilian Association
of Alternative Communites
(ABRASCA),
and an administrator
for the Ecological Diversity
and Regeneration- Friendly Movement (MADRE).
He is also a breatharian.
It is possible to access
possibilities beyond
the non-eating, perhaps
beyond the human
understanding,
such as
the dematerialization
of the body and
re-materialization
of the body, freely,
and the non-eating state
is a small matter.
Tune in to
Supreme Master Television
on Sunday, January 30,
for our program,
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning to
Our Divine Self through
Breatharianism,”
on Between Master
and Disciples.
Tune in to
Supreme Master Television
today for our program,
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning to
Our Divine Self through
Breatharianism,”
on Between Master
and Disciples.
This program discusses
the possibility of
breatharianism, or living
without eating food, and
is not a full instruction.
For your safety,
please do not attempt to
cease eating without
proper expert guidance.
For your safety,
please do not attempt to
cease eating without
proper expert guidance.
Today’s Between
Master and Disciples –
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism”
– will be presented
in Portuguese
with subtitles in Arabic,
Aulacese (Vietnamese),
Bulgarian, Chinese,
Czech-Slovak, English,
French, German,
Hindi, Hungarian,
Indonesian, Italian,
Japanese, Korean,
Malay, Mongolian,
Persian, Polish,
Portuguese, Punjabi,
Russian, Spanish,
and Thai.
In scriptures,
the human body
is often referred to
as the temple of God.
Yet, it is quite
an uncommon privilege
for any soul to
attain this sacred abode
that houses the Divine,
as it is truly a blessing
to be reborn
as a human being.
On several occasions,
Supreme Master Ching Hai
has spoken about the rarity
of this phenomenon:
To be reincarnated in
the human world is hard.
You have to have
enough Human Quality.
You have to have
affinity with the parents
and with the society,
with the people around
which you are born.
Very difficult.
To be a human,
you need some merit.
You have done
something good
in the past
in order to be able
to pick a human birth.
As a living temple of God,
the human body
is fully equipped
with miraculous wonders
that can be awakened
in those who
are spiritually conscious
and have complete faith
in the Creator of all life.
Inedia,
Latin for “fasting,”
is the human ability
to live without food.
Since time immemorial,
there have always been
individuals who
can sustain themselves
on prana,
or the vital life force.
Through the grace of
the Providence, inediates,
people who follow
a food-free lifestyle,
can draw the energy
from nature
to nourish themselves:
They live on the chi
from the ground,
or from the forest,
and from the sun
and from the air.
They make use
of all that.
Or they live on love,
on faith alone.
These individuals are
known as breatharians (pranarians or inediates),
solarians, or waterians,
and they come from
all walks of life, from
different cultures, and
all corners of the world.
Indeed, the possibilities
and miracles in this life
as our benevolent Creator
has designed for us
are endless;
we only need to connect
within to recognize
our abounding largess
as God’s children.
Supreme Master Ching Hai
has lovingly
recommended
a weekly series on
Supreme Master Television
to introduce
those individuals
of the past and present
who have chosen to
live food-free on Earth.
May their spiritual stories
enthrall you;
may hearts be opened,
and horizons be expanded.
We now invite you
to join us for part 3
of our 4-part program,
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism,”
on Between Master
and Disciples.
On a diet of 2,000 calories,
more or less,
we expend around 1,400
to metabolize the food.
So it's almost
contradictory to eat.
Albert Einstein said
everything is energy,
so it's very clear
that we are one, right?
And the difference
between things and
people are the different
frequencies
of energy that shape
the material elements.
But the basic principle is,
if we take the food
inside our mouth,
we're taking in the same
energy that we are, right?
So, we could
bring the same energy,
which is one that is
through breathing
or through a state
of consciousness.
Greetings,
generous viewers.
Today,
we return once again to
the vast and multifaceted
country of Brazil
in Latin America to
speak with Oberom Silva,
a big-hearted breatharian
who has a profound
respect for life.
Oberom has been
food-free for nine years.
Growing up in a family
that respects life wherein
all members adhere
to this principle through
their plant-based dietary
lifestyle, Oberom was
receptive very early on
to the more exalted
values of human life.
After witnessing
his mother’s
amazing transformation
when she transitioned
to the food-free diet,
Oberom also decided
to live on prana.
In fact, the entire family,
aside from the youngest
child, has gone through
the 21-day process.
Look, six months before
my process, I watched
closely my mother’s
process and I had no doubt
that it was possible,
that it was suitable
for me too.
So fears, of any kind...
everything became so fluid,
all pointed and
pushed me toward
it that I didn’t resist.
With everything
that happened, it seemed
that God was really
putting us in this and
right this way.
From his personal
experiences, Oberom
came to the realization
that the human body
possesses unimaginable
abilities that are just
waiting to be tapped into.
The human body is
ingeniously divine,
within this divine art
of composing matter.
It is more or less... Well,
I don’t want to risk
putting number on this
because it can be nonsense.
It is trillions of cells,
each one with millions
of functions.
And amazingly,
each cell knows
the function of each
of the many cells.
So we are an intelligence.
Of course,
for all these matters of
vibration, of density,
of limited perception,
we have to access
a survival mechanism
which is a mechanism
that governs
the animal world: hunger,
eating, sleeping.
So all of this is natural;
it’s not bad.
But we can wake up to
something more subtle,
more conscious,
and from that awareness,
accessing a consciousness
that will bring
a higher vibration,
will be rescuing
the divine intelligence,
unlimited intelligence.
That is this vehicle,
and it alone will provide
all the information I need
to carry out my task.
The vibration simply
brings this intelligence,
this unlimited intelligence,
and it operates as well as
it multiplies the cells,
and guide these elements
of our organism.
Living on prana is
a reality that humankind
should recognize.
It is a natural part of life
that assists us
in realizing God.
Sometimes people want
a scientific explanation,
I know there is one.
We have a book
by Michael Weiner,
“Life from Light,”
that mentions the vision
of a physician
about this possibility.
And just now I received
a report concerning
a Mexican doctor,
a Mexican scientist,
who speaks about
human photosynthesis.
Hira Ratan Manek
himself talks about
the process
of awakening the pineal,
releasing melatonin
through light, which
enters via our eyes.
These are explanations.
But then, to attempt to
explain love scientifically...
When you can explain
love scientifically,
it will be very easy to
explain living on light
scientifically.
As a great cosmic mother,
who is watching over me,
which is accompanying me,
but I have awareness
that God is this: me,
you, and everything.
And there's no difference,
no separation at all.
Everything is orchestrated
within perfection.
This all-encompassing
awareness...
has an entire plan
that is developing.
Then I sometimes
allow myself to feel
like a smaller being,
although I know that
I am this consciousness.
Humanity is certainly here
as a school
on evolution. People say,
“Oh, but we are like this
since a long time ago.”
For example,
with the eating aspect,
“Why are you inventing
this non-eating?”
We have teeth, we have
a digestive system,
but why not evolve?
We know that our body is
completely adaptable
and versatile, and we've
suffered mutations
throughout our evolution.
Then perhaps
this is a new stage,
for some people initially.
Then I realize that within
this great school,
which is life, that we live
in this moment
as humans at this stage
of our learning,
of our evolution.
We have come
to acknowledge God,
and for some it is a slow
and painful process that
even includes many lives.
For others,
it is a recognition.
Maybe God shines
stronger within some,
because of merit,
and shortens the path
of these people.
For others,
the person suddenly
needs to learn more.
For Oberom, living on
light becomes a journey
inward to rediscover
his true self.
By giving up
physical food, considered
critical for human survival,
and cultivating himself
through meditation,
Oberom enters the realm
of the Divine.
For me,
before the process,
my life was dedicated to
sports and physical exercise,
manual labor at home,
with a scythe, with a hoe,
an herb garden,
planting trees.
And when I did the process,
remnants of this life
were repeated.
My enthusiasm for sports,
and the possibility that
the body gave me
in response to all these
stimulations,
I realized that I was
investing much energy
externally, whereas
I could conduct
this energy for my
spiritual development.
So I found yoga.
And then my life was left
between the field,
the practices of life
in the field and
the physical practices
with hatha yoga,
raja yoga and karma yoga,
and then after that
I had an experience that
was a nine-month journey
with very little money,
surrendering to
the Divine Providence,
to even be living miracles
in 13 countries in Europe.
The road to Santiago,
I walked in silence,
800 kilometers
without eating,
in 19 days – but without
eating was eighteen days.
There was a day that
I couldn’t avoid,
not because of
a physical need but of
a social issue there,
the circumstance that
held me to that.
And everything
was wonderful.
The body is perfect.
It understands what
the situation is and
finds a way around food.
Although it feels
the weight, again,
of entering into that
mechanism to digest,
to breakdown;
but it solves the issue.
And then, due to this trip,
which was completed
in India, two months
in India with my brother,
I returned to Brazil and
wrote a book,
“Traveling in the Light,”
which reports
the experience of
being on pilgrimage,
of really living
through surrendering
to the Divine Providence,
without any kind of fear
or concern that
I would be disappointed.
And this brought,
once again,
a confirmation
that things flow.
Just trust, just surrender...
And there I wrote the book,
and from that,
started to work to spread
this perception
that living on light
is not non-eating.
It is living on divine light.
It is possible to live,
on this divine light
even while we still eat.
And, of course,
to also say that
it is possible to access
possibilities beyond
the non-eating,
perhaps beyond
the human understanding,
such as
the dematerialization
of the body and
re-materialization
of the body, freely,
and the non-eating state
is a small matter.
And then,
with these lectures
on pranic consciousness,
I also use the book
that is now in English.
And my life today
is very active.
What occurs during the
21-day transition process
to becoming food-free?
It is three weeks,
divided into the physical
body, emotional body,
mental body.
Cleansing of all these,
in all these extensions
of our being,
the balance between them
and changing a pattern
of beliefs.
The process happens
naturally more or less
like this. From the fourth
until the seventh day,
you're being fed through
the subtle energy,
and the body does not
quite understand
what this mechanism is,
and because you are not
losing energy to digest,
you get more energy,
and then you don’t sleep.
So, it's quite common
that from the fourth
to seventh day
people do not sleep.
But from the moment
the juice enters, because
it is a week without
eating anything…
and the last two weeks
of drinking juices.
Then, at the moment
the juice enters,
the body relaxes again
and then you have
more time to sleep.
But we do not work
even when not eating.
We work on the dive
to go deep within,
the perception of oneself,
the perception of
how the mechanisms
of the ego are, and from
this the deconstruction of
limiting belief systems.
Compassionate viewers,
thank you for your
gentle company
for this episode of
Between Master
and Disciples.
Join us again next Sunday
when we continue with
part 4 of
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning to
Our Divine Self through
Breatharianism.”
Coming up next is
Good People, Good Works,
after Noteworthy News.
Please stay tuned to
Supreme Master
Television.
With gratefulness,
may our planet and
all beings continue to
be immersed in Heaven’s
boundless mercy.
For more information
about Oberom
and his work,
please contact:
Literature
on Living Food-free
Oberom Silva
is a teacher, author,
council member of
the Brazilian Association
of Alternative Communities
(ABRASCA),
and an administrator for
the Ecological Diversity
and Regeneration-
Friendly Movement
(MADRE).
He is also a breatharian.
I no longer need to eat,
I no longer need
to drink anything.
And I began to explore
this with handball,
with athletics, with
capoeira and…wow!
The idea is that the
person cleanse himself,
balance himself, and
access this awareness
of the limitless
being that we are.
Tune in to
Supreme Master Television
on Sunday, February 6,
for our program,
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism,”
on Between Master
and Disciples.
Tune in to
Supreme Master Television
today for our program,
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism,”
on Between Master
and Disciples.
This program discusses
the possibility of
breatharianism, or living
without eating food, and
is not a full instruction.
For your safety,
please do not attempt to
cease eating without
proper expert guidance.
For your safety,
please do not attempt to
cease eating without
proper expert guidance.
Today’s Between
Master and Disciples –
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism”
– will be presented
in Portuguese
with subtitles in Arabic,
Aulacese (Vietnamese),
Bulgarian, Chinese,
Czech-Slovak, English,
French, German,
Hindi, Hungarian,
Indonesian, Italian,
Japanese, Korean,
Malay, Mongolian,
Persian, Polish,
Portuguese, Punjabi,
Russian, Spanish,
and Thai.
In scriptures,
the human body
is often referred to
as the temple of God.
Yet, it is quite
an uncommon privilege
for any soul to
attain this sacred abode
that houses the Divine,
as it is truly a blessing
to be reborn
as a human being.
On several occasions,
Supreme Master Ching Hai
has spoken about the rarity
of this phenomenon:
To be reincarnated in
the human world is hard.
You have to have
enough Human Quality.
You have to have
affinity with the parents
and with the society,
with the people around
which you are born.
Very difficult.
To be a human,
you need some merit.
You have done
something good
in the past
in order to be able
to pick a human birth.
As a living temple of God,
the human body
is fully equipped
with miraculous wonders
that can be awakened
in those who
are spiritually conscious
and have complete faith
in the Creator of all life.
Inedia,
Latin for “fasting,”
is the human ability
to live without food.
Since time immemorial,
there have always been
individuals who
can sustain themselves
on prana,
or the vital life force.
Through the grace of
the Providence, inediates,
people who follow
a food-free lifestyle,
can draw the energy
from nature
to nourish themselves:
They live on the chi
from the ground,
or from the forest,
and from the sun
and from the air.
They make use
of all that.
Or they live on love,
on faith alone.
These individuals are
known as breatharians (pranarians or inediates),
solarians, or waterians,
and they come from
all walks of life, from
different cultures, and
all corners of the world.
Indeed, the possibilities
and miracles in this life
as our benevolent Creator
has designed for us
are endless;
we only need to connect
within to recognize
our abounding largess
as God’s children.
Supreme Master Ching Hai
has lovingly
recommended
a weekly series on
Supreme Master Television
to introduce
those individuals
of the past and present
who have chosen to
live food-free on Earth.
May their spiritual stories
enthrall you;
may hearts be opened,
and horizons be expanded.
We now invite you
to join us for part 4
of our 4-part program,
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism,”
on Between Master
and Disciples.
I no longer need to eat,
I no longer need to
drink anything.
And I began to explore this
with handball,
with athletics,
with capoeira and…wow!
The idea is that
the person cleanse himself,
balance himself,
and access this awareness
of the limitless being
that we are.
Greetings,
generous viewers.
Today,
we return once again to
the vast and multifaceted
country of Brazil
in Latin America to
speak with Oberom Silva,
a big-hearted breatharian
who has a profound
respect for life.
Oberom has been
food-free for nine years.
So “pranic” is a name
used for people who live in
the pranic consciousness,
this unlimited consciousness
of yourself,
of our human potential.
And this comes from a leap
in consciousness, I mean,
a spiritual experience
at an initiation level,
for example,
it’s a gradual process and
the person is taking that,
incorporating this divine,
rediscovering that
which time has given him.
So being pranic is living
within this vibration
where you tap into
those qualities
that have been dormant
“Breatharian” is
an appellation for a being
that follows a diet,
I'm restricting really
to the diet, where
there is nothing physical
that is consumed.
A breatharian is that being
who lives exclusively
on prana.
He exists within
the pranic consciousness,
therefore he is pranic.
He has transcended the
attachment to the palate,
of feeling pleasure
so he is even free from
this issue of living
for the pleasure of taste,
I am pranic,
but I do not consider
myself a breatharian.
I do not make
the focus of my life
of being a breatharian.
I am not seeking it.
I'm looking for
this permanence,
the stability
in consciousness,
to be happy all the time,
entirely happy, fully.
This is what
I've been working on
and I feel that
the result of this stability
in consciousness is that
the desires disappear
and I am nurtured
by the prana, as my cells
already recognize this.
The days where I am “dry,”
where I keep feeding
exclusively on prana,
I do not feel
any lack in needs.
My energy is much greater.
My work is
physically heavy,
manual work even and
I don’t feel any kind of
fatigue or the like.
So it is really
a matter of ego,
to be willing to
feel pleasure, that is why
I don’t consider myself
a breatharian, but
rather a pranic, living on
pranic consciousness
and perhaps who arrives
at breatharianism.
For Oberom,
after going through
the challenges of
the transitioning process,
the end result
was much better
than he had expected.
Physically I feel fine, truly.
Actually, the fact of
going through nine years
without getting sick
is wonderful!
It's a very rich experience.
And even the feeling
of the body
being full of energy,
invigorated for activities,
I think
it is also very rewarding.
I do yoga,
and I feel very happy
having this energy,
to be able to stop
and observe... and also
the physical dynamics
in some practices
like Vinyasa Flow
that requires a lot
from the body.
A two-hour
intense practice,
and the body responds
perfectly well.
Emotionally, I feel that
if there’s a consciousness,
there’s stability.
We cannot identify
with the processes.
The natural processes
of life that involves
the mind, that will
involve the emotions,
then the consciousness
is watching.
If you're there,
you do not fall
into these dramas,
and consequently
everything becomes
more stable, centered,
more balanced.
I feel like this, truly.
A state of balance.
Yes, in a state of balance.
When I did the process,
one of the motivations
that I had,
and one of the ideas, was
about not eating anymore.
So many times
I infringed upon
a principle that today
I see so much of that
was ahimsa, non-violence,
on behalf of a rigidity,
ego even:
“I will not eat.”
It was not something solved.
It was something
imposed upon me
by myself, which
generated suffering
at some level, and then
I notice in the ninth month,
I was not only generating
a violence for myself,
but also with the people
within my environment;
and I chose to be free.
No constraint
on my freedom
to the non-eating factor,
but to be free.
Of course,
the feeling of not eating
is wonderful,
is an immense freedom.
But also to be free to eat.
What I I'm feeling now,
it's complete, it’s real.
So this pleasure,
I started to evaluate it,
and it brought a discipline,
very beautiful, which is
what I follow today.
After I completed
the process,
my sleep fell by half;
I started to sleep
about four hours.
There are some nights
that are less than that,
but not forced sleep
and have to wake up
for any reason; and
not that case of insomnia
which you feel tired
and cannot sleep.
The time was well spent
resting, very nice, and
I have absolute energy to
perform all my activities
which are not always
very light, so calm,
sometimes very dynamic
and strong.
When I finished the process
and had that certainty
and physical sensation
that I was being nourished
by God, nurtured by
love, happiness...
Everything became
very alive, very colorful,
and fluid.
Aside from
raising awareness
to the attainability
of a food-free lifestyle,
Oberom also works
actively to promote
the plant-based living.
The compassionate vegan
diet respects the lives of
our animal co-inhabitants
who serve to beautify
our planet and enrich
our human existence.
When it comes
to our digestive system,
we know
that we are herbivores,
so we are going
against human nature.
And the consumption
of meat today
is the most unsustainable
in existence.
We know that if we remain
with an omnivorous diet,
we are feeding off the pain,
suffering, violence,
and in time this
reflects in our thoughts,
in our words
and often in our actions
that brings the density
which does not allow us
to link the food
that we are consuming
with a life, or the element
that we are consuming
with the thousands of lives
that are put down so that
we may have the livestock.
Forests upon forests
are destroyed so that
we can create pastures.
Therefore, I think
the most important point
in this transition
for the planet
to survive today,
I think that
the biggest advancement
to this liberating awareness
is a vegetarian/vegan diet
where we will not be
contributing to
self-destruction.
We will enable
many other beings
to develop their life
in a harmonious way,
even in interaction
with humans,
in the moment that
he realizes the importance
that these beings have
for our growth
for our learning.
Until now we only see them
as mere instruments
of satisfaction
for our pleasures –
and they are our teachers,
and brothers.
Immersed in the love
of the Divine as a result
of living on prana and
his practice of meditation,
Oberom feels
a deep gratitude for all
the guidance and support
that have helped him
to rediscover his true Self
and experience God
so profoundly.
Pranic consciousness
is a state of
feeding from love.
If we govern our lives
from love,
then all of our actions
will create, maintain love.
And in this condition
of love, pure and true,
that lives in the presence,
all of our actions comes
from the awareness.
I see, then, that this work
of Master Ching Hai
provides access
to beings living
with this consciousness,
which is often shielded
by society, I see
that it is very liberating
to bring this program
about breatharianism
to people's awareness.
I am very thankful
to this work where
I realize now more than
at any other time
that the team is big,
that we have never
actually been alone.
I would like thank
with all my being,
my Master
Parahamsa Yogananda,
the entire
Brotherhood of Light,
the White Brotherhood,
the Ascended Masters.
I want to thank Jasmuheen
for the work.
It is a very courageous
work and valiant, meaning
acting with the heart.
I would like to thank
my parents for the faith,
for the surrender,
and for the example
that they are, my mother
who is a living example
of this state
of consciousness,
and my entire family.
I thank
the entire organization
of the Supreme Master,
and very deep gratitude
to the Divinity,
the divine presence
“I AM,” who allowed
himself to be stronger
than my ego
and revealed himself to
give direction in my way,
and I see myself
as being very privileged
to be so soon, I think,
to have developed
so early in life.
I also think I have received
so many blessings
and have been treading
in such abundance,
so joyously, and
with much love, therefore,
I’m very grateful.
Brave-hearted viewers,
it has been a pleasure
to have your company
for this series of
“Oberom C. Silva:
Returning
to Our Divine Self
through Breatharianism”
on Between Master
and Disciples.
Coming up next is
Good People, Good Works,
after Noteworthy News.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
May our planet be graced
by Heaven’s mercy
and overflowing love.
For more information
about Oberom
and his work,
please contact:
Literature
on Living Food-free
Meet Saint Mary Ann
de Paredes, renowned as
“The Lily of Quito,”
who was a revered saint
from Quito, Ecuador.
Respected for her ability
to exist without food,
Saint Mary Ann
de Paredes lived
for many years solely
on the wafer-thin
Holy Communion.
“All who gave testimony
in the different processes,
either as eye-witnesses
or who spoke to their
own certain knowledge
of Mary Ann's fasts,
all without exception
agreed in affirming,
that by a special favor
of Almighty God
she lived for many years,
and was entirely supported
by that heavenly
and spiritual food, which
she received every day in
holy communion, having
no longer any need of
material or earthly food.”
Tune in to
Supreme Master Television
on Sunday, February 13,
for our program,
“Saint Mary Ann
de Paredes:
The Lily of Quito,”
on Between Master
and Disciples.
Tune in to
Supreme Master Television
today for our program,
“Saint Mary Ann
de Paredes:
The Lily of Quito,”
on Between Master
and Disciples.