Yogi of Art and Artist of Yoga: Swami Mahesh Yogi

A young painter of about 25 years, Bharat Ratna Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was overwhelmed by the pictures made by him, Bharat Ratna Swar Kokila Lata Mangeshkar was mesmerized and Bharat Ratna came out of the mouth of the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji. A 25-year-old youth who started yoga in front of Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev ji in the presence of lakhs of people on the stage did not last two or four hours but continued doing difficult and difficult yoga methods for the whole 76 hours. Kapalbhati set a world record by doing yoga millions of times and 51 hours. Naturally, the mind should know about these two personalities. The name of the first painter is Mr. Mahesh Tripathi and the name of the second yogi is Swami Mahesh Tripathi. Yes, both persons are not two but one person. But knowing this, no one believes that the same person has so much hold in two different genres. But Swami Mahesh Tripathi, a resident of Siddharthnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, who is now known to the whole world by the name of Swami Mahesh Yogi, is an unmatched personality who has done this amazing feat.

Swami Mahesh Yogi started making unique paintings in childhood, later you also did post-graduate and MPhil on the same subject. Not only did you carve exquisite artworks but also created multiple series of paintings. Made thousands of natural paintings including politicians, sportspersons, artists, scientists, social workers, and litterateurs from the country and abroad. Then the idea came to your mind that why not register a world record for all these, in this connection you contacted the office of the Golden Book of World Records and later many of your world records were registered. In harnessing your skills, you got the company of a worthy teacher, the world’s first D. Litt. title holder woman, Dr Chitralekha Singh ji in the field of painting. While the process of making paintings was going on, Swami Mahesh Yogi also started doing yoga and slowly kept enjoying it, then did you start doing yoga for many hours, and you not only did yoga but also studied a lot about it. Although you gained a lot of fame as a great painter, now you have become more famous as a yoga guru. You were invited to many prestigious programs because you used to do yoga for hours. As a result, you thought of making a world record in this field as well. In the year 2016, you registered your name in the Golden Book of World Records by doing Yoga continuously for 76 hours on the stage in front of eminent Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev ji. Later on, you registered many world records in yoga and painting. You are not only practising yoga and art yourself. Rather, by setting up Divya Bharat Nirman Trust and Saptarang Kala Sansthan, hundreds of very poor, deaf-mute, handicapped, blind children are trained in painting and yoga and are also engaged in improving their skills. You make arrangements for the education, food, clothes etc. of these children and love and caress them like your own children, even though you have your children to eat. Because neither there is any solid source of income nor there is any help from the administration, despite all this you do not get distracted even a bit in your plan. You say that there are so many talents in the country of India that there is a need to improve their skills so that our country can again become a world leader. At the age of just 30 years, by refining these children, you have recorded 19 of your names and 32 of your children’s names, altogether 51 world records in the Golden Book of World Records.

In the year 2019, a series of paintings made by you were also installed at Mewar University, whose world record was also registered in the Golden Book of World Records. Expressing respect for your extraordinary personality, Mewar University has established a yoga department named Swami Mahesh Yogi Excellence School of Yoga. Uttar Pradesh government has also named your village Mahesh Yogi Nagar in your honour. Many books have been written by you on painting and yoga, which are taught in graduate and post-graduate courses at many universities.