125yr Old Man Receives Padma Shri For Yoga
Walking bare feet in the palatial Darbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan, 125-year-old Swami Sivananda received a standing ovation when he received the Padma Shri award from President Ram Nath Kovind.
125-year-old Swami Sivananda has been given the Padma Shri by the Indian government. He was given the award because of his selfless contribution to helping the poor and his dedication to Yoga. To receive the award he reached the Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi. He is a Yoga Guru and was a yoga guru, dressed in white kurta and dhoti. When he reached Darbar Hall where the programme was held, the first knelt in front of PM Modi. Modi also promptly bowed and touched the ground. The audience gave him a huge round of applause. After this Sivananda bowed twice. Once he bowed a little away from Dias. When he reached the Dias, he again bowed in front of President Ram Nath Kovind. Kovind then stepped out and helped Sivananda rise to his feet, after which he handed over the award and the citation.While presenting the award, the President was seen talking to the Swami as the two posed for pictures with the Darbar hall echoing with the applause. Born on 8 August 1896 in Sylhet district of India. This area is now in Bangladesh.
Due to abject poverty, his beggar parents could feed him mainly boiled rice water during his childhood days. Swami Sivananda lost his mother and father at the age of six. He was brought to his Guru Omkarananda Goswami’s ashram at Nabadwip in West Bengal. Guru Omkarananda Goswami brought him up, imparted all practical and spiritual education including Yoga without school education. He has been a positive thinker throughout his life. 'The world is my home, its people are my fathers and mothers, to love and serve them is my religion'-- this has been his belief. For the last 50 years, Swami Sivananda has been serving 400-600 leprosy-affected beggars at Puri by personally meeting them at their hutments. He gives them different materials like food items, fruits, clothes, blankets, winter garments, mosquito nets, cooking utensils, etc.
At the age of 125, he even got the COVID vaccine. Doctors across India are shocked to see how fit he is. They have performed tests on his body and found that he is completely healthy. He says that this is all because of Yoga.
