No historical person is definitively proven to have lived 700 years, but biblical figures like Methuselah (969 years) and Lamech (777 years) in Genesis are cited in religious texts, while yogis like Devraha Baba are rumored in local lore to have lived centuries, with one claiming 700+ years, representing longevity myths rather than verified history.
possible that he lived for 700 years as well. Baba was called, "The Ageless Yogi." Devraha Baba gained mastery over the khecheri state of yoga whereby he was able to control his hunger and the time of his death.
Methuselah, in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), patriarch whose life span as recorded in Genesis (5:27) was 969 years. Methuselah has survived in legend and tradition as the longest-lived human.
Devraha Baba. Devraha Baba was an Indian Siddha Yogi saint who lived beside the Yamuna river in Mathura. He was known as "ageless Yogi".
Methuselah's name has become synonymous with longevity, and he has been portrayed and referenced in film, television and music.
If you add up the length of time between Methuselah's birth and Noah entering the ark (187+182+600), it is also 969 years. That means, in the very year Methuselah died, the Flood was sent forth like a javelin on the earth.
The person killed by God for not impregnating (specifically, for refusing to fulfill his duty to provide offspring for his deceased brother's wife) was Onan, a figure from the Old Testament (Genesis 38). God put him to death because Onan practiced withdrawal (spilling his seed on the ground) to prevent his sister-in-law, Tamar, from conceiving, which was considered wicked in the Lord's sight.
According to Robert Arnett's writings, Telang Swami's miracles are well documented and storied. He lived a great life for around 300 years and displayed his miraculous powers. Even though he ate seldom, he weighed over 140 kg.
This book speaks only of the Babaji spoken of by Yogananda. Yogananda stated that no one really knows how old Babaji is, but he is at least hundreds and hundreds of years old, if not thousands, and he looks 25 years old because he is not aging.
The life of Devraha Baba is shrouded in mystery, and according to the different versions time of his life in the body is estimated between 150 and 250 years. Baba was called “Eternal Yogi”. Devraha Baba mastered the Khechari mudra by means of controlling his tongue and the time of his death.
Biblical and non-biblical traditions identify Nimrod as the ruler associated with the Tower of Babel; Jewish, Christian, and Islamic accounts variously portray him as a tyrant who led its builders, turned people from God, and opposed Abraham, even attempting unsuccessfully to kill him by fire.
Genesis 5, the Book of the Generations of Adam, lists the descendants of Adam from Seth to Noah with their ages at the birth of their first sons (except Adam himself, for whom his age at the birth of Seth, his third son, is given) and their ages at death (Adam lives 930 years, up to the 56th year of Lamech, father of ...
Adam naming the animals as described in Genesis. In some interpretations, he uses the “Adamic language” to do so. In the Middle Ages, various Jewish commentators held that Adam spoke Hebrew, a view also addressed in various ways by the late medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri.
Many Himalayan yogis have lived and still living and the local anecdotes quoting their life spans to 500-700 years. Devrah Baba figured in the photo lived in East Uttar Pradesh,localites say he lived close to 700 years before attaining Mahasamadhi in 1989.
Sathya Sai Baba's followers have attributed to him a range of miraculous abilities, including the materialisation of Vibhuti (holy ash) and other small objects such as rings, necklaces, and watches. He was also believed to have performed spontaneous healings, resurrections, and exhibited clairvoyant abilities.
Devraha Baba had many Siddhis or Spiritual powers, including walking on water and even staying underwater for multiple hours without breathing and he could read people's minds easily, he clearly understood the languages of all animals and he never ate food.
“Babaji is ever in communion with Christ; together they send out vibrations of redemption and have planned the spiritual technique of salvation for this age.”
There are many recorded miracles: healing people, raising the dead, being in several places at the same time, feeding multitudes from a small portion of food. But mostly people flocked to Babaji because they experienced him as a divine loving Being far above the human level.
The maximum human lifespan is currently considered to be around 120-125 years, with the oldest verified person, Jeanne Calment, living to 122. While average life expectancy has risen dramatically due to medicine and lifestyle, some researchers suggest a fixed biological limit exists, potentially around 150 years, beyond which the body's resilience completely fails, though others argue this limit can be pushed.
Shiva Prabhakara Siddha Yogi (March 16, 1263 – April 6, 1986) was a spiritual master who lived for 723 years in 17 different physical bodies. Also known as Siddha Yogi Shivaprabhakara Swami Brahmananda, he was one of the greatest Siddha Yoga saints of the last century.
Mbah Gotho. Saparman Sodimejo, (died April 30, 2017), popularly known as Mbah Gotho, was an Indonesian man who gained attention for his claim of having lived over 140 years.
Jesus speaks of forgiveness beyond what anyone had ever considered before: seventy times seven! Many commentaries understand this to mean that Jesus was telling Peter that he should forgive his brother a limitless number of times.
John was banished by the Roman authorities to the Greek island of Patmos, where, according to tradition, he wrote the Book of Revelation. According to Tertullian (in The Prescription of Heretics) John was banished (presumably to Patmos) after being plunged into boiling oil in Rome and suffering nothing from it.
According to midrashic literature, Adam's first wife was not Eve but a woman named Lilith, who was created in the first Genesis account. Only when Lilith rebelled and abandoned Adam did God create Eve, in the second account, as a replacement.