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5 Mind Boggling Facts About Budhia Singh

What were you doing by the time you were 5? Budhia had run 48 marathons including a 65 km marathon which earned him a place in Limca Book Of Records. But how much do we re-ally know about the Oriya marathon sensation?

Budhia, who starting running at the ten-der age of five, has stunned the en-tire country. But there is a lot more to his life that we deserve to know.Someone who was being anticipated to become the next Milkha Singh, disap-peared from the magazine covers, athletic events and the streets of Odisha after 2007,

1. Where did Marathon Boy Budhia disappear?Budhia was sold off by his mother for Rs 800 to a vendor. However, Das, a judo trainer, res-cued the little boy and took him to the coaching centre. After that “historic run”, Budhia went on to participate in 48 marathons but as soon

as media started reporting about his victo-ries, the child welfare department temporar-ily barred Budhia from running in marathons and he was later sent to the sports hostel.

Marathon prodigy’ Budhia now lives a very ordinary life like 150-odd children at the Ka-linga stadium hostel in Bhubaneswar. His daily routine includes getting up at 6am, hours of rigorous sessions, and 1-2 hours of condition-al training per day. Today, all he aspires for is an Olympics medal. He and his mentor-cum-coach Biranchi Das, who was murdered in 2008, had dreamt of winning one together.

2. At the age of five, Budhia ran a distance of 65 kilometers from Puri to BhubaneshawarDespite extreme heat and unfavorable cli-matic conditions, Budhia managed to cov-er the entire distance. Even when the army doctor who was overseeing the race urged Budhia to stop for fear of his safe-ty, he did not stop and completed the race.

3. The entire distance of 65 kilome-ters was covered by Budhia in 7 hours and 2 minutes flat! Yes, that’s right.

4. After his run from Puri to Bhubane-shawar, he became the world’s young-est running sensation and also entered the Limca Book of Records for the same.

5. While 5-year-olds today love spending

most of their time on their iPads and con-soles, Budhia became the youngest kid to have completed 48 marathons by the age of five. Budhia Singh was also awarded the Rajiv Gandhi award for Excellence in 2006.

Budhia Singh’s extraordinary achieve-ments made him one of the most promis-ing athletes of the country. Budhia’s story has inspired an Odisha-based film-maker Soumendra Padhi to make a biopic Bud-hia Singh-Born to run on the young runner.

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Sadhguru explains that spirituali-ty is a journey from the gross to the subtle, to the point of nothingness.

Questioner: Sadhguru, you said nature knows what should happen at what time, and that there is intelligence to it. But you also said that nature is duality and that to be spiritual is to transcend nature. Could you please explain?

Sadhguru: People ask me, “Eating is nature; reproducing is nature. Why not do it when-ever we feel like it?” Nature has manifested itself on grosser and subtler levels. Body and mind are two different aspects of who you are. If you leave it to the body, you will only want to eat and sleep. This is the body’s na-ture. But the mind tells you, “Let’s sit here and listen.” Which aspect of who you are do you go by right now? You have left the body aside and have listened to the mind. You have ascribed more value to the nature of the mind than that of the body because you have realized that the nature of the mind is a little subtler than that of the body.

When it comes to body and mind, the ques-tion is not what is higher – the question is what is subtler. If something is subtler, it has more possibilities. The grosser something is, the more limited it is. The subtler it is, the more expansive it is. A stone for example can only lie there. It may lie there for a million years, without anything happening with it. On the other hand, the breeze is subtle – it is all over. Space is even subtler – it encom-passes everything. What becomes subtler, becomes freer. It goes beyond limitations.

The whole spiritual process is, in a way, to be-come subtler and subtler, to the point of noth-ingness. Nothingness is the subtlest thing in existence. So, it is not a question of whether something is superior or inferior. It is a ques-tion of how limited or unlimited something is, or rather whether something is bound or free.

As it gets more and more subtle, you can’t bind it. Only the gross can be easily bound.

Questioner: So if you are being driven by something, how do you know if it is the sub-tler nature or the grosser nature that is driv-ing you? Or in other words, how do you know whether it is liberating you or binding you?

Sadhguru: If you are being driven by some-thing, you should look at what the driving force is. Body, mind, emotions, and your energies are the four basic aspects that can drive you.

Questioner: But mind and emotions can also drive the body. If I am after physi-cal pleasure, drugs, or some such thing, it is not necessarily just a bodily need.

Sadhguru: It is always a combination. We cannot separate the four yogas [karma yoga, gnana yoga, bhakti yoga, kriya yoga] because you are a combination of the four. You only need to look at what is predominant right now.

As I said, if you leave it to your body, you will want to eat some more now and lie down – this is the body’s nature. But peo-ple on the spiritual path consciously fast, even if food is available. Someone who is struggling to get enough to eat may think you are utterly stupid – you have food, but you do not eat. He may ask what you are trying to achieve. You are fasting since you want to address a subtler aspect of you, be-cause if you go by the gross, it will bind you.

Whatever you seek, it is usually a combina-tion of things that drives you. The mind is very much involved with food too, though food is a physical requirement. It is just that since the mind is enslaved to the body, food has be-come the occupation of the mind too. If there was no body, you would not think of food. If there was no mind, you would still seek food. So, fundamentally, food is about the body.

Your mind and emotions may be enslaved to the physical body – that is why all three are seeking the same thing. When you are fast-ing, in a certain way, you are trying to en-slave the body to your mind. Your mind says, “I’m not going to eat today because that will be beneficial in some way.” That way, the body does not rule your life anymore. You do not want the gross to rule your life. You want to move towards the subtle, because the gross is bondage, the subtle is freedom.

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