On Monday, a barefooted a 125-year-old yogi, Swami Sivananda captured the attention of everyone inside the Darbar Hall at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Dressed in a simple white kurta and dhoti, he bowed down in front of Prime Minister and President before and after accepting the award.
Sivananda is now the oldest man to be conferred with the Padma Shri award. The yogi was born in August 1896, in Sylhet district (now in Bangladesh) and credits his long life to his understanding of yoga.
According to a report by ANI, even today, he wakes up at 3am and has a rigorous routine to follow. Having lost his mother and father at the age of six, he grew up eating simply boiled rice water during his childhood days.
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It was after his parents’ death that Sivananda reached his Guruji, Omkarananda Goswami’s ashram at Nabadwip in West Bengal. From there, there was no turning back for him.
As for his diet now, he only has oil-free food and believes only in serving those who are underprivileged.
Swami, on many occasions, has owed his age to yoga, discipline and the celibacy vow that he took when he was young. He believes, ‘The world is my home, its people are my fathers and mothers, to love and serve them is my religion.”
Since his formative years at the ashram, the yogi has been practising and teaching Yoga at Kashi ghats. Moreover, he has also been serving leprosy-affected people at Puri for the past 50 years.
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Swami Sivananda has been honoured with various awards, including the Yoga Ratna Award in 2019, PTI reported. Moreover, he was the senior-most participant from the country at the yoga demonstration on June 21, the World Yoga Day in 2019.
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