Be him an incarnate, be him kidnapped or eaten up by tigers - it is no doubt that he indeed had used Buddhist meditation powers to cause him to go into some sort of "hibernation". The pilgrims of the past were mostly mainstream scientific individuals, and the many skeptics to his repute return believers. Medical science should be rewritten, as the show ultimately seems to conclude as a believer from the skeptic it first was. The human body can indeed live without food or water. Buddhist meditation is not something psychological.