If you’ve ever had to keep your hands raised for even a few minutes, you’ll know that your muscles and joints will eventually feel like they’re on fire. That’s why it’s almost incomprehensible that anyone could have kept their arm raised up for over 5 decades, but this one man did exactly that.
His name is Amar Bharati, and he’s from a small village in Delhi, but a revelation he had as a 23-year-old led him to make the greatest commitment of his life. He realized he needed to give up worldly attachments and devote himself to the Hindu deity Shiva, so he raised his right hand to the sky and never brought it down again. This might make him an expert at high-fives, but it also turned him into a symbol of peace for the entire world.
Read on to find out more about him, and what exactly pushed him to do such an incredible thing.
