{"id":213622,"date":"2025-01-12T16:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T16:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/maha-kumbh-2025-devotees-seek-blessings-of-swami-shivanand-who-claims-to-be-129-years-old\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T16:44:24","slug":"maha-kumbh-2025-devotees-seek-blessings-of-swami-shivanand-who-claims-to-be-129-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/maha-kumbh-2025-devotees-seek-blessings-of-swami-shivanand-who-claims-to-be-129-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Maha Kumbh 2025: Devotees seek blessings of Swami Shivanand, who claims to be 129 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1070\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-117178366,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/videoshow.jpg?resize=1070,580&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Maha Kumbh 2025: Devotees seek blessings of Swami Shivanand, who claims to be 129 years old\" title=\"Maha Kumbh 2025: Devotees seek blessings of Swami Shivanand, who claims to be 129 years old\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Swami Shivanand Saraswati, known as world\u2019s \u2018oldest saint\u2019, who claims to be 129 years old, reached Maha Kumbh. Swami Shivanand Saraswati is continuing this tradition of attending the Kumbh since around last 100 years. Devotees from across the globe come to get a glimpse of the \u2018Baba\u2019 and seek his blessings in Prayagraj. Speaking to ANI, Swami talked about leading a life without any \u2018desires\u2019 and talked about his only wish of serving the poor. Baba follows a strict daily routine, waking at 3 AM for meditation, chanting, and yoga, and consuming boiled food. Sharmila Sinha, a disciple of Swamiji shared stories of him and informed that he refrains from accepting donatio<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"read_more\"> Show more<\/span><span class=\"read_less hidden\"> Show less<\/span><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/maha-kumbh-2025-devotees-seek-blessings-of-swami-shivanand-who-claims-to-be-129-years-old\/videoshow\/117178366.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swami Shivanand Saraswati, known as world\u2019s \u2018oldest saint\u2019, who claims to be 129 years old, reached Maha Kumbh. Swami Shivanand Saraswati is continuing this tradition of attending the Kumbh since around last 100 years. Devotees from across the globe come to get a glimpse of the \u2018Baba\u2019 and seek his blessings in Prayagraj. Speaking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-117178366,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/videoshow.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[19005,168714,4811,14320,137974,65073,12811,146118,168711,39667,1266,168715,168712,15492,168710,111,168713],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213624,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213622\/revisions\/213624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}