Indian Holy Man Has Kept His Right Arm Raised For 38 Years

Sadhu Amar Bharati is an Indian holy man who claims he has kept his right hand raised in the air since 1973. Now, 38 years later, his hand is just a useless piece of skin and bone, but has become a symbol for Shiva worshipers around India.

 

Until 1970, Amar Bharati was an average middle-class man who lived a normal life. He had a job, a home, a wife and three children, but none of that mattered when he woke up one morning and decided to leave everything behind and dedicate his life to serving the Hindu god Shiva. He began wandering the roads of India dressed in his simple Sadhu clothes and carrying only his trusty Trishula (a metal trident). After three years, in 1973, Amar realized he was still too connected to the fading luxury and pleasures of mortal life, and decided to separate himself from them by raising his right arm and keeping it raised. 38 years later, his arm is still up and he couldn’t use it, even if he wanted to.

 

 

Other sources claim Amar Bharati felt disillusioned by all the fighting going on in the world, and decided to raise his right arm for peace. A respected Sadhu at the Kumbh Mela, in Haridwar, Amar has inspired other Sadhus to raise their arms for peace and harmony, and some of them have kept them raised for the last seven, thirteen, even 25 years. But doing something like this doesn’t just mean giving up the functionality of an important body part, it also implies dealing with a lot of pain. Bharati himself says he went through excruciating pain for a long time, but not anymore. That’s because his arm is completely atrophied and stuck in a bizarre, semi-vertical position, a useless bony structure ending in thick, twisted nails that he never clips.

Indian Sadhus perform all kinds of unusual tasks in the name of religion, like sleeping in an up-right position, never taking baths, fasting for long periods of time, but Amar Bharati’s choice is truly one of the most bizarre I’ve ever seen.

 

Source :- http://www.unbelievableinfo.com/2013/12/indian-holy-man-has-kept-his-right-arm-raised-for-38-years.html

The Bungle Bungle Range, Australia

The Bungle Bungle Range is a spectacularly incised landscape of orange an grey dome shaped sandstones rising 250 metres above the grass land. The Bungle Bungle Range is one of the most fascinating preserved geological landmarks, located in Purnululu National Park in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Bungle Bungles were not really discovered as a travel destination until the mid 1800s.

Bungle Bungle Range
Photograph by Neerav Bhatt

Bungle Bungle Range
Photograph by Sam Abell, National Geographic

A series of beehive-shaped towers or cones were formed by the combined effect of wind and rainfall on Devonian-age quartz sandstone over a period of 20 million years. 

Bungle Bungle Range
Photograph by NeilsPhotography

Bungle Bungle Range
Photograph by Vallausa

Unique depositional processes and weathering gave spectacular black and orange banded appearance to these dome shaped towers. The dark layers in the sandstone were formed by biological processes of cyanobacteria, previously called blue-grey algae, that serve to stabilise and protect the ancient sandstone formations. These dark layers have a higher clay content so that hold moisture better. The lighter coloured layers have less clay, are more porous and dry out quickly. Cyanobacteria can't grow here and without the protective coat the surface is exposed to "rusting".

Source(s) : kimberleyaustralia.com, whc.unesco.org 

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho

The Craters of the Moon Lava Field, located in southern Idaho, USA, spreads across 618 square miles (1,601 km2) that certainly looks like a lunar landscape. Its scarred landscape is the result of the stretching movement of Earth's crust over the past 30 million years. The more than 60 different lava flows on the surface range in age from 15,000 to just 2,000 years old. During last eruption, lava erupted from the Great Rift, a series of deep cracks that stretch for 52 miles (84 kilometers). The Craters of the Moon continues to be volatile, and scientists predict that it will experience future eruptions that will alter its surface. Surprisingly, this seemingly desolate landscape is home to more than 350 species of plants, 160 species of birds, and 43 mammals.

 

Source: howstuffworks.com

Amazing Stone Balancing Art By Adrian Gray

Adrian Gray  has been developing his art of stone balancing for many years. His ability to create almost impossible to believe compositions has created wonder and left witnesses in awe and mesmerized. By very carefully feeling the balancing point of each rock he handles - a process that requires awesome skill and patience - Gray is able to arrange them in ways that seem incredible. 'The trick is putting together stones which look like they couldn't possibly sit on top of one another. Only then can you you make something extraordinary' , Gray explains.

Source :- http://www.unbelievableinfo.com/2014/04/amazing-stone-balancing-art-by-adrian-gray.html

Incredible Stone Balancing By Michael Grab

Michael Grab, ‘rock balancing‘ artist since 2008, creates astonishing towers and orbs of balanced rocks using little more than patience and an astonishing sense of balance. Grab says the art of stone balancing has been practiced by various cultures around the world for centuries and that he personally finds the process of balancing to be therapeutic and meditative.

Source : gravityglue.com

British Artist Created Giant Crop Circles In Snow

British artist Simon Beck alone created the huge patterns, which came in a range of designs from intricate snowflakes and spirals to cubes and rather more abstract creations, on frozen lakes in Les Arcs, France. Some of patterns span the size of six football pitches. Artist spent around 10 hours at a time to create giant 'crop circles' in the snow by painstakingly walking. And he used an orienteering compass to create the perfect geometric designs.

Mr Beck, an orienteer leader, has created hundreds of the artworks after ploughing his first at Christmas in 2004. He used what he described as a 'kind of reverse orienteering' to plot his intricate paths before walking along the route in a pair of snowshoes. He said: 'The main reason for making them was because I can no longer run properly due to problems with my feet, so plodding about on level snow is the least painful way of getting exercise.'

Source : dailymail.co.uk