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 – “Zinaida Baranova: More Than a Decade of Living on Prana” – will be presented in Russian 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, “Zinaida Baranova: More Than a Decade of Living on Prana,” on Between Master and Disciples.

A planetary event is coming Very soon, very soon it will come to us Humankind will enter the New World Only by the Gate of Love Humankind will enter the New World Only by the Gate of Love We have to make it on time for the passage The Christ body has to mature within us We’ll shed the old clothes and thus the new clothes are radiant We’ll shed the old clothes and thus the new clothes are radiant There’s only one step left for us to become Godlike Dear humankind, overcome this step!

Greetings, open-minded viewers. Today we travel to beautiful Russia to revisit Zinaida Baranova, a septuagenarian who has dispensed with the need for food, relying solely on prana for sustenance for over a decade. In 2006, she made headline news in Russia when she was discovered to have been living food-free. Although she was 70 years old at the time, scientists who examined her were astounded to discover that she has the biological system of a 30-year-old woman. Indeed, despite her advance age, Zinaida is rosy, happy, and a picture of good health. Achieving the food-free state was something which she naturally gravitated towards. Zinaida explains this was an unexpected lifestyle decision to our Supreme Master Television’s correspondent.

I live in Russia, Kutais village, part of Goriachii Kliuch city in the Krasnodar area. It’s been quite a long time since I have been on the alternative nutrition. I do not nourish myself with physical food that we have on the table but with energy food which is found in abundance around us. And, in fact, on March 26 of this year, it would be already eleven years since I began this lifestyle. But, actually, I was not consciously moving towards it. This happened on March 26, 2000. I was consciously approaching the year 2000 simply according to the Universal High Intelligence – to cross the barrier of spiritual perfection and the barrier of physical perfection.

Prior to becoming food-free, Zinaida had adopted a healthy, life-protecting diet for seven years.

I was living mostly on a vegetarian diet, a mixed one… of regular nutrition. That means cooked food and plant-based raw food. Here in nature, in our climate conditions of the Caucasus foothills, there is green grass almost two-thirds of the year.

There are greens that can be eaten raw. Therefore, I did not have any information about the raw food diet, the mono-raw food diet. I was just intuitively using what I had on hand, whatever was in my garden. I was growing everything in my garden. I had everything: vegetables, greens, fruits. And before I would pluck something from the field, I would ask if I can take it, explain that I need it and I was giving thanks for it. In general, they grow for humans to use them, but when you treat them in this way, you feel that they give with appreciation. Then they give themselves consciously, with gratitude for that person. And basically, such a communication was going on all the time. Same as “hallo” You go in the garden and start communicating with your plants.

And slowly, easily, my body was adjusting. As it turns out, it was necessary for all the energy centers to intervene in order to provide my body the life force necessary. It turns out that such a phenomenon is possible, and on March 26 of the year 2000 I received a message telepathically: “Try now without food.” And since then I have been trying it. I’ve lived like that for eleven years.

Initially, Zinaida only gave up solid foods, but 18 days later she was given another message, “Now you can do without water.” With total confidence in her divine guides, whom she calls “Teachers,” Zinaida gave up water as well. Interestingly, by this time, Zinaida’s sense of smell for food somehow seemed to have been turned off; however, her sense of smell for other things remained.

What kind of changes did you go through during the first few days, the first few weeks…?

In regards to my physical state, there were no specific sensations, because so many years had passed prior to that… Basically, for seven years I was improving my health. I had periods when I was drinking only liquid vegetarian soup stock. There were short fasting periods, and then I did a body cleansing, cleansing of the liver, kidneys and lymph nodes. Well, basically all the systems of the body.

I cleansed everything, and because of that, there were no noticeable changes in the beginning phase. But when I was given the recommendation to try with no water, for one month, approximately 40 days, I had cramps. And it was very hard for me. It was hard for my body to readjust from taking physical water to the one where the lungs provide it like that. But all of that passed. It was very hard during those forty days. Basically, my movements where kind of slow and I had to move sparingly because I felt weak. And then it was gone.

What kind of thoughts did you have and how did you overcome the need for drinking and eating?

You know, since I did not approach it consciously, I did not have to overcome anything. It came to my consciousness: “Try it with no food.” Okay. I only asked: “Do I have to cleanse my intestine?” Because usually, before we stop taking food for a period of time, we clean our system; but the answer was negative. No need for any cleansing – the body, the intestine, cleansed itself three times the same day. It felt similar like cleansing it with enema. It cleansed itself and that was it, and since then I’ve never cleansed my intestines for eleven years.

You have friends, family. How did they react?

When I was going through the period of switching from the normal way of living to the alternative nourishment, I was living in Kiev among my friends. I was expecting some guests over. I came from the market with two bags of all kinds of vegetarian food. I arranged everything on the shelves, and here I received the recommendation: “Try it with no food.” When my friends arrived, I invited them to the table, served them. They asked, “Why aren’t you eating?” I told them, “From this day onward I will not eat anything.” And they replied, “Yes, sure!” They did not believe me, but eventually I convinced them that I was trying to live like that.

But even though they knew about my decision, when we would meet, they would forget. They would offer me something tasty, “Zinaida, try this!” I would look and smile, “You forgot again.” Basically, for them it was unusual. My daughter was calling me quite often asking, “Mom, aren’t you sick? Mom, aren’t you sick?” They thought that if I live like this, I would be sick. I comforted her every time. Even when I was in India, she would call me to ask if I was sick or not. Everything is fine.

Veg-embracing viewers, we appreciate your gentle company for today’s episode of Between Master and Disciples. Join us again next week for part 2 of “Zinaida Baranova:

More Than a Decade of Living on Prana.” Coming up next is Good People, Good Works, right after Noteworthy News. Please stay tuned to Supreme Master Television. May each day bring you wisdom, harmony, and contentment!

Literature on Living Food-free First of all, each person should decide for himself if he wants to switch to praniс nourishment. Is he ready to do it? Does he need this experience? Because this way of living is not necessary for all. But before you ask the body this question, it is important to switch to a vegetarian diet.

Tune in to Supreme Master Television on Sunday, May 15, for our program, “Zinaida Baranova: More Than a Decade of Living on Prana,” on Between Master and Disciples.

Tune in to Supreme Master Television today for our program, “Zinaida Baranova: More Than a Decade of Living on Prana,” on Between Master and Disciples.