Shivabalayogi after he completed twelve years of tapas,
meditation in samadhi (enlightenment) from 1949 to 1961,
from age fourteen to twenty-six.

For eight years he meditated twenty-three hours every day.
The next four years, he meditated at least twelve continuous hours each day,
but there were times when he remained in samadhi for weeks at a time.

Photo taken in Adivarapupeta, March of 1963, less than two years after tapas.