Initially hesitant about revealing the secret of his healthy longevity, Bhagat now openly declares that decades of practising urine therapy had contributed to it.
The centurion from Entwa village in Gopalganj district walks around without the help of a stick and doesn’t even need spectacles. In fact, he says his eyesight has improved over the years.
He stitches clothes, works in the fields to help his sons during peak season and insists that he has the same zest for life that he had 30 or 40 years ago. Besides, his memory is said to be as sharp as it was half a century ago.
He admits that it was initially difficult to tell people that he drank his own urine to heal diseases. But when villagers asked him about the reason for his long life a few years ago, he told them.
There are others like him. According to the Alternative Therapy Centre in Patna, hundreds of people of all ages are using urine therapy to heal themselves from various incurable diseases.
Scientists have discovered that urine, extracted from our blood, is one of the most complex of all body fluids containing practically all the constituents found in blood - like life-sustaining nutrients, proteins, hormones and antibodies.
A former Indian prime minister (1977-80), Morarji Desai, who lived till 90,
was one of the staunchest proponents of this therapy.