HIGHLIGHTS-
- Swami Sivananda has been bestowed with the Padma Sri Award.
- He received a standing ovation from the audience.
- Swami Sivananda is the epitome of simplicity and humility.
The epitome of simplicity and humility, Swami Sivananda has been bestowed with the Padma Sri Award. President Ram Nath Kovind presented him with the honour. The Yoga Guru received the award while walking barefoot in the stately Darbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan. The humble act of the Swami Shivananda drew a standing ovation from the audience.
The yoga practitioner prostrated in front of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind before receiving the honor, garnering another wave of applause from the guests at the civil investiture ceremony. Prime Minister Modi quickly bent and touched the ground in response to the greeting.
The life story of Yoga Guru Swami Sivananda
Swami Sivananda was born on August 8, 1896, in the Sylhet region (now in Bangladesh) of undivided India. During his childhood, his destitute parents could only offer him boiled rice water due to their extreme poverty. He lost both his parents when he was six years old.
Following the final rites, he was taken to his Guruji’s Ashram in Nabadwip, West Bengal. Guru Omkarananda Goswami raised him and provided him with complete practical and spiritual education, including Yoga, without the school education. Throughout his life, he has been an optimistic thinker. The yoga guru believes, ‘The world is my home, its inhabitants are my fathers and mothers, and loving and serving
them is my religion’.
Swami Sivananda: Epitome of Humility and simplicity
Swami Sivananda has devoted his life to the betterment of mankind. His modest techniques of living a disciplined and well-regulated life with early morning Yoga, an oil-free boiled food, and selfless devotion to mankind in his own way have given him the longest life free of sickness and strain. Rather than preaching, he uses his own life as an example.
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