AGRA: A 70-year-old Mathura resident Mahendra Singh Verma made his way into the India Book of records on Sunday for “longest time to stare at the sun with bare eyes” under soaring temperature of 39 degrees C.
The Indian book of Records’s adjudicator Bhanu Pratap Singh has issued a certificate, medal for setting the record for “beholding the sun” for longest time — one hour 26 minutes — with bare eyes. He now wants to try his way to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Talking to media persons, Singh said that this is part of his practice as he knows “trataka” (method of meditation that involves staring at a single point such as black dot, candle flame). After searching on google, he got to know that there is a record of 20 minutes on India book and there is no such record in Guinness world record, so he decided to make a record as he could do it for longer time.
“This is the toughest meditation practice,” he said, adding that he had earlier made the record of one hour in Global Book of Record and today broke his own record by registering his name to India book of records.
