Oh, so all the people who were saved this time on the Kailash pilgrimage, were saved by god? And the one’s who couldn’t, the reason is a person, hmmm; very interesting analogy.
I see what you did there.
What kind of BS peddling is happening here on X for a Guru who has devoted all his life to make people’s lives better and beautiful is just sad beyond measures.
#Sadhguru Jagadish Vasudev has pledged Rs 1 crore towards #Nepal’s Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund to support rescue and relief efforts following devastating flash floods along the #Nepal-#Tibet border. He also called for greater cooperation among Himalayan nations, proposing a five-nation Himalayan Board to coordinate responses to disasters affecting the fragile mountain region.
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For the past few days, the entire Isha community has been living with a heaviness that is difficult to explain to anyone outside it.
The Ishanga leading the group of 77 was my Shoonya teacher. I had friends, people I deeply care about in other groups.
This personal connection brought the tragedy unbearably close. But even without it, the people who were at the immigration centre in Gyirong would not have felt like strangers. Most of us may never have met them, spoken to them or even seen their faces. Yet, from the moment we heard that they remained unaccounted for after the devastating flash flood, they felt like our own people.
Like members of our own family.
Some within the community had relatives or friends travelling with other Isha groups. They waited anxiously for messages saying they were safe. Every delayed call brought fear. Every update was read and reread. Every uncertain piece of information carried enormous weight.
And then there was the concern for Sadhguru.
He was still in Tibet, with roads blocked, communication disrupted and the situation changing constantly. The fear for his safety felt deeply personal. It felt as though our own father or mother was standing in a dangerous place while we were far away, unable to do anything.
According to Isha Sacred Walks coordinator Maa Gambhiri, Sadhguru and over 700 Isha participants were still in Tibet. He wanted a safe land route to be secured for them. He also wanted to reach the affected area and assist in every way possible.
The original update said that, of the 21 groups, 495 people had already returned safely, 743 remained in Tibet, 148 were in Nepal, 77 had been at the immigration centre and three volunteers were in Timure.
To the world, these may be numbers in a news report.
To Ishas, every number is a person.
Someone’s spouse. Someone’s parent. Someone’s child. Someone who sat beside us in a programme. Someone who volunteered with us. Someone who walked the same path.
A Gurubhagini or a Gurubhrata.
Many people today may not understand these words. Perhaps even we do not use them often. But we have definitely imbibed their essence. During moments like this, it becomes visible. We may come from different countries, speak different languages and have completely different lives, but the connection is real.
This is when the meaning of community becomes apparent.
It is easy to celebrate community during programmes, festivals and joyful moments. Its real strength is revealed when tragedy strikes. It is seen when people pray for those whose names they do not know. When volunteers work without rest. When families comfort one another. When thousands of people wait together for one hopeful update.
Perhaps this is what it truly means to experience the world as one family.
It cannot remain a beautiful idea meant only for good times. It must mean that another person’s pain can enter our heart, even when that person is unknown to us.
For the past few days, the entire Isha family has carried this fear, grief and helplessness together.
We continue to hope. We continue to pray. We stand with every person and every family affected by this tragedy.
Because when a community truly becomes a family, no one’s suffering remains somebody else’s tragedy.
VIDEO | Kathmandu: At 'In Solidarity with Nepal' event, Sadhguru says, "This is not the time to point fingers at anybody, but it's important we understand that all this is because of human activity. As humanity, we need to address this. Right now in Nepal, there is a resounding silence of death. You can't change that. You can't claim lives that are gone. That is not in our hands. Death is a resounding silence. The only thing left right now is rescue, relief, reconstruction. So, we shall immediately build back. It's important that a calamity of this nature and volume should not be left just to the Nepal government. It's important the world bodies participate in this because it's beyond any single government to handle this kind of situation. Physically if you see what's happened there, it's just incomprehensible. That is what this is..."
(Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)
@ishafoundation Prayers to the grieved ones Om Shanti 🌷🌱for the unfortunate event and any console may not fill the gap to any sides ..
They went in Shivas abode so he will take care of the rest but we humans judge so early according to our level ..
🙏Om Shanti 🌷