In Rangoon last fortnight, Narasingha Swami, Indian mystic, ate a handful of ground glass, drank half a drachma of nitric acid, some sulfuric acid, also swallowed a grain of strychnine and a grain of potassium cyanide.. He died in agony. His friends explained it was because he had been kept from doing his yatayoga (breath-control and autosuggestion exercises) by swarms of visitors at his house.
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