Can you pull out your penis in public and pull something with it? It is damn painful, right? The penis is incredibly sensitive and is not designed to withstand blunt force, trauma or large amounts of pressure. Well, a holy man referred to as ‘sadhus’ was spotted and photographed performing a bizarre feat of strength as he pulled a truck around using his penis at a Hindu religious festival in northern India where hundreds of thousands of Hindus gather every year for the annual Magh Mela festival.
Anyone who has been in the festival will have seen some astonishing sights, but perhaps none as eye-catching and opening as that.
Sadhus are holy men who have rejected earthly comforts in search of spiritual enlightenment in the hope of breaking the cycle of reincarnation, a major tenet [a principle or belief] of Hinduism. As such, these men own no possession and usually opt for only modest clothes or in some point decide to live naked, relying on stranger’s kindness to provide for them.
Often, these men will perform feats of physical or mental strengths as a display of their spiritually and mastery of yoga techniques. Sometimes it involves lifting or carrying objects with the penis. For example one of them holds the Guinness world record for the longest time he stood motionless, for 8 hours 5 minutes and 5 seconds.
The 45 day event sees worshipers bathe in the waters of sangam, the confluence of the holy Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers, on appointed dates.