An Indian ascetic practioner Sadhu named Amar Bharati has been advocating for world peace for almost fifty years while holding up his arm without lowering it.
A sadhu is a religious ascetic or a holy person in Hinduism in some cases Buddism Jainism who has rejected all worldy desires.
Bharai was a married man with three children, who worked as a clerk in New Delhi intil 1970, when he quit his job and left his family and freinds to devote his life to Shiva, one of the principle deities of Hinduism also called as "the primordial yogi."
He raised his arm at the beginning of 1973 as a symbol of his devotion and "to militate against wars and support world peace." By doing this he endured excruciating pain for two years of his life, but eventually his arm lost all feeling and the muscles in his arm atrophied.
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