Shivapuri Baba
1826-1963 137 years ?!
aka: Swami Govindanath Bharati
1826-1963 137 years ?!
aka: Swami Govindanath Bharati
Indian saint, one of the first to visit the West
born in Kerala, India
was a spiritual seeker all his life, practices involved
various forms of Yoga methods
met President Teddy Roosevelt in the US, and
Queen Victoria many times in England
lived last decades of life in Nepal, where he was
visited by Gurdjieff follower John Bennett, who wrote
a book on him.
born in Kerala, India
was a spiritual seeker all his life, practices involved
various forms of Yoga methods
met President Teddy Roosevelt in the US, and
Queen Victoria many times in England
lived last decades of life in Nepal, where he was
visited by Gurdjieff follower John Bennett, who wrote
a book on him.
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Just a few days ago I was reading the memoirs of a very rare man. He was a saint who died a few years ago. He lived for a really long time -- almost one hundred and forty years. His name was Shivapuri Baba, Shivapuri Baba of Nepal. In his memoirs he tells a story.
him a box full of notes, hundred-rupee notes. While in the train he looked into the box; it was full of notes and he wanted to know how many notes he had. So he started counting. In the compartment there were only two persons, Shivapuri Baba, a very old ancient man, at the time he must have been about one hundred and twenty years' old -- and an English lady, a young woman. She became interested. This old beggar was in the first class and was carrying a whole box of one- hundred-rupee notes? An idea came in her mind. She jumped up and said, 'You give me half the money otherwise I will pull the chain and I will tell them that you tried to rape me.' Shivapuri Baba laughed and put his hands to his ears as if he were deaf. And he gave her some paper and said, 'Write it down. I cannot hear.' So she wrote it down. He took it and put it in his pocket and said, 'Now pull the chain.' This is presence of mind! --Osho Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol. 2, ch. 3 |