Shivabalayogi after he completed twelve years of tapas, meditation in samadhi (enlightenment).
He meditated from 1949 to 1961, from the age of fourteen through 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.