INDIAN MAN HAS KEPT HIS RIGHT ARM RAISED FOR OVER A DECADE
An Indian monk has been holding his arm in an upward position continuously for more than a decade, in honor of his god.
Mahant Akhara, an Indian sadhu (a holy person who has renounced his worldly life) from Allahabad, has been keeping his right arm raised high above his head for more than 10 years in honor of a Hindu deity.
He was recently featured in a viral Twitter video, telling the interviewer that he wanted to do something so that his god will notice him. So, he raised his right arm up and never put it down again. Today, it is sort of stuck in that position, and he claims he does not even feel it anymore.
It turns out that the first couple of years are the most difficult. After that, the muscles in the arm become so wasted away that the whole limb becomes numb and stuck in that abnormal position. Mahant even pinches himself in the video to demonstrate that he doesn’t feel anything anymore.
Asked how long he planned to keep his arm raised like that, Mahant, who even sleeps with his right arm in that unusual position, said that he had not even thought about it. He prefers to live in the present, but he expects to keep it raised for the rest of his life.
It is unclear exactly how long Mahant has been keeping his arm up like that; he just says, “Over 10 years” in the video, but there are photos of him on the Internet from 2018 with captions that claim he had been doing it for over a decade then. So, now, it has been at least 14 years.
If Mahant’s sacrifice looks familiar, that is probably because he is not the first one ever to do it. Over a decade ago, another sadhu, who at the time had been holding his right arm up for 38 years, became a symbol for Shiva worshipers all over India. That sadhu has now been keeping his arm raised for almost half a century.
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