Hindu Holds Hand Up Here For 43 Years

Sadhu (a monk-hermit) Amar Bharti ( Amar the Bharti or sadhu amar bharati ) is currently the only Indian saint, who holds his right hand up over the past 43 years. A hand went up, not for idle experiment, and was dedicated to the god Shiva, and as a result, has become a symbol for the faithful Indians.

Forty years ago, Amar was a common ordinary citizen of India, burdened by the usual burdens of family life - his wife and three children. While he was the average standard of care - work, home, shop. But one night for unknown reasons Amara outlook has changed dramatically, and he woke up, he decided to move the family to the back and put a seat service to Lord Shiva.

Dressed in plain clothes, newly monk walked on the roads of India, living on alms and spending days and nights in a constant prayer. After three years of wandering sadhu it seemed that he is still a prisoner of worldly passions, and he decided to come up with something more spiritual, to the most uncompromising way to surrender to the service of Lord Shiva. Then, in 1973, and I hit the right hand, which was raised, and never again let down to the present day. Amar is probably shows all worldly delights (not Shiva same after all).

In 43 years of being in the vertical position of the right hand joints have become completely unusable, so that Bharti, even if he really wanted, would not be able to operate it. Nails on a holy hand is not cut off if it undergoes ablutions unknown. The owner of the hand admits that at first it was painful, but then the body is used and the pain is gone. Instead of a lost limb sadhu found harmony with the inner "I" and some other inaccessible to mortal spiritual benefits.

Also invisible to the eye astral bonuses, Amar had got quite real - became famous throughout the country and is revered by believers as a saint of the highest standard. Without a doubt, this reverence can be justified, because the similar feat decided by many, but the palm and indisputable record of duration belongs only to Bharti.

After so many years of his hand turned into a useless bones covered with skin, thick and twisted in a spiral nails (because they had not been clipped). Hand completely atrophied and frozen in an unnatural, almost upright.

Before becoming a sadhu, Amar Bharati was an ordinary representative of the Indian middle class, he had a job and a family. But one morning he realized that all this does not matter, all dropped out and devoted his life to the service of the Hindu god Shiva.

Some sources claim that Amaru Bharati was very painful because of the wars and strife in the world, and he decided to pick up his hand for peace. Despite his worldly past, Sadhu Amar Bharati highly revered during the rites of pilgrimage Kumbh Mela in Haridwar.

In an interview with Amar Sadhu Bharati said that his spiritual discourse focused on the anger and strife in the world today, on how people consume their neighbors, and that the most important thing - to live in peace and harmony.

Asked whether his raised hand, Amar replies does not hurt that she was sick, but he was used to. Like most of the ascetics, he did not want to talk about life before he gave his vow.

Amar Bharati says that he does the same thing, that many saints have done before him, and he just continues the tradition. In India it is called Urdhaman tapas and designates the type of service, when the ascetic devotes part of his body to God.

Maha Kumbh Mela in Haridwar - one of the biggest religious events in the world. Amar Bharati inspired other sadhu raised his hands for the sake of peace and harmony. Some hand held raised for seven, 13 and even 25 years.

Although there is no documentary evidence that Amar Bharati always kept his hand raised for 43 years, it is known that Indian Sadhus perform unusual tasks in the name of faith, for example, sleeping or standing for long periods of fasting. In India there are holy Prahlad Jani, who 70 years do not eat or drink. His case has been tested and documented by physicians.