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The 54-year-old has the title for being the globe's best at 100 different activities. His list of achievements include doing 27,000 star jumps, somersaulting over 12 miles and 390 yards, and chopping 27 apples mid air with a samurai sword.
However, Ashrita, who has dedicated the last 30 years to being the world's greatest, is already training for his next effort – running the fastest mile with flippers on his feet.
He has broken a staggering 236 Guinness World Records in his time, but entered the history books by holding 100 simultaneously.
Two of his records have since been broken, and he now holds 98, but his title of "most records held simultaneously by an individual" is far from being touched.
"The next nearest is about 20 records so even when some of mine are broken, the record is pretty safe," he said.
Ashrita's most recent antics include a hand-blistering 339 basketball bounces in one minute, in February, and a fiddly 40 M&Ms eaten with chopsticks in one minute, set in March.
A stunt in April involved having a poem translated and recited into 111 different languages
The New Yorker became obsessed with reading the Guinness Book of World Records as a child, and dreamed of one day breaking one.
"I was so un-athletic and weedy I got bullied," he said. "I had no interest in sports or physical activity whatsoever but I reached a point in my life where everything changed."
As a teenager he began studying the Eastern art of mediation with Indian spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sri Chinmoy.
"It changed my life," he said. "The link between mind and body became a huge part of my outlook and with encouragement from Sri Chinmoy I was starting to think about taking my body to extremes through meditation.
"I soon realised that limits are all in the mind. Using the practices taught by Sri Chinmoy I decided to start training for world records. I had always loved the Guinness Book and my new approach to life got me thinking that anyone was capable of taking the body to new limits."
In 1979 he broke his first Guinness record with a bone-grinding 27,000 standing star jumps in New York.
His longest standing record to date stretches back to 1986 for somersaulting for the longest continuous distance of 12 miles, 390 yards.
Other achievements include pushing a car 17.06 miles in 24 hours and walking 80.95 miles with a milk bottle on his head.
"It's not about beating anyone or my ego," he added. "It's about proving to people that there are no limits to what we can do."
