Are there yogis in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old?

Question

Recently I read a book by an American entitled"Babaji and the 18Siddha Yoga Tradition,Another work,a travllogue by an Indian author speaks of his encounter with a few sanyasins in the very interior parts of Himalaya,He too speaks of Babaji,the deathless saint.Any comments?

Answer 1

Instead of getting funny replies to your questions.. why dont you go to Himalayas and see for yourself

Tapovan... 7 Kms from gaumukh very tough terrain.. will take you to some yogis who are sitting in -50 degrees and worshipping for the welfare of the universe !!

As far Babaji and other siddhas, please know that these siddhas have long left their bodies and they travel in Astral bodies.

Since they are expert in Yoga, they can materialise in physical form before anyone, if they so wish.

So it is not a question of physical body living for thousands of years, but the Astral body.

Answer 2

The Hindu texts have described several periods of
life time. Baalyam means childhood period upto 10 years
of age. The period between 12 years and 25 years is
called Koumaaram which roughly corresponds with
adolescence. Within this period, Kurra means the age of
16. This is called the age of eternity. Russian
scientists have found that if the control systems in
the body are maintained at the same level of efficiency
as they are at the age of 16 years, using some
machinery or electronic control system, a person can
live for 10000 years. The Puranas say that people in
Krita Yuga (the golden age according to esoteric texts)
lived for 10000 years. However contrary it may be, this
very age of eternity is also the age of commencement of
the period of gradual death. Some Hindu texts say that
there is divinity in children. The possible
interpretation of this line could be that this process
of gradual death does not touch children until they
reach the age of 16 years. (Most children who die
before the age of 16 are due to external factors,
malnutrition etc). This is verified by the fact that
the percentage of persons who die at the age of 16 are
the lowest compared to any other age. This fact
observed by ancestors went into fairy tales which say
that a princess will die on her 16th birthday. Modern
medicine has found that 'brain sand' starts forming in
the pineal gland after the age of 16.

Among all countries in the world, India has inherited
the largest number of ancient manuscripts from time
immemorial. They were written on the widest range of
subjects known to humans. The Yoga science has
many theories which were not put to writing. But some
commentories say that those theories provide for
living more than a thousand years. They also say that
there are Yogis who are living for more than a thousand
years. Modern science requires many decades of
research to find those theories.

Answer 3

Himalayan Yogis

Answer 4

Only mummified bodies (dead bodies without decomposition due to extremes of weather) might exist in some mountain cevices. Tibetans practised mummification of bodies. Yogis die in Himalayas. Their bodies are probably mummified.

Answer 5

We Indians accept and believe. One has to go to Himalayas and spend years to locate such persons. Those saints drop and wear the body as and when required.

Answer 6

Does this answer
A yogi or yogin (in Sanskrit: योगी yogini is used as a feminine alternative) is a term for one who practices yoga. These designations are mostly reserved for advanced practitioners. The word "yoga" itself - from the Sanskrit root yuj ("to yoke") - is generally translated as "union" or "integration" and may be understood as union with the Divine, or integration of body, mind, and spirit.

In the Fourth Way teaching of Gurdjieff the word yogi is used to denote the specifically mental path of development, compared with the word fakir (which Gurdjieff used for a path of physical development) and monk (which he used for the path of emotional development).

In contemporary English yogin is an alternative rendering for the word yogi, a human being who is committed to the practise of yoga, usually in the more authentic sense of one who is bound by a code of moral conduct and restraint (including celibacy) with a view to the realization of moksa (liberation). Both words tend to conjure up the image of a semi-naked Indian ascetic with long hair, throughout the East, the words are often used to describe Buddhist monks or any lay person who is devoted to meditation. Yogins or Yogis in that sense are not necessarily fully enlightened as the following definition from the Nuttall encyclopedia suggests.

"Among the Hindus, a Yogan is one who has achieved his yoga, over whom nothing perishable has any longer power, for whom the laws of nature no longer exist, who is emancipated from this life, so that death even will add nothing to his bliss, it being his final deliverance or Nirvana, as the Buddhists would say."

Answer 7

One thousand years ago you place the date of your 1000th birthday, your name and your fingerprints inside a book you donate to the Vatican Library. Request that the book be checked for your name and fingerprints on the day of your 1000th birthday. If I placed my fingerprints on the vellum of a manuscript that would absorb the oil of my fingerprints a day short of a thousand years ago and my 1000th Birthday was tomorrow, today's forensics could surely check them against my present prints...but, then, possibly I'm shooting for 2000.

Answer 8

Yes.... ofcoz the Yogis arnt there for news coverage for them to be declared as the oldest to be on the flashnews, they are Yogis, all they have in mind is "GOD"

If u want, go there and see for urself.......
Truth of Hinduism and it"s path is not merely by reading ,but by witnessing .

But they arnt easily seen, they are in absolute meditation, decades meditating

Answer 9

No human being crosses 150 in present days. For every living being there is death. It is impossible that one crossed 1,000 years of age. If you want simply believe it and do not test scientifically or logically. Of course no Christian or Muslim saint or priest can survive for thousand years and they do not believe as such.

Answer 10

Yes it is true yogis make their life long by doing PRANAYAM
PRANAYAM means stopping of breath.when a yogi stop his prana his increasing age stops.
When he opens it his age starts from same point.