Isha Foundation founder and spiritual leader Jaggi Vasudev, known as Sadhguru, broke down while telling followers at the foundation’s camp at Saga in Tibet, China, that 80 members of an Isha group returning from the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra were missing after a flash flood struck the Nepal-Tibet border region.
He said the group was inside the immigration building at Gyirong minutes before it was washed away.
Sadhguru said the group was inside the immigration building at Gyirong minutes before it was washed away; he said his own party had crossed the group on the yatra route
“If he had crossed over, his Nepal phone should have come active. It did not come. So literally the entire group was there in the building. Roads and telecommunications were down when he tried to reach the site.
“At 9:05 (AM) he sent a message that they have arrived at the immigration. So after that, this happened at 9:14,” he said, describing the leader as a full-time volunteer of over two decades. On the wider toll, Sadhguru cited Indian news reports putting 484 missing on the Nepali side.
“This is a terrible and an extraordinary event,” he said in a video on his YouTube channel. Sadhguru said his own party had crossed the group on the yatra route. “One of our groups, the S3 group, that we met at Saga and also met them when we were trekking up, they were coming down,” he said. The foundation last heard from the group leader nine minutes before the flood hit, he said. He said the group leader’s Nepal phone never activated. “On this side there’s absolutely no information,” he said, adding that the overall numbers “could be anywhere around 1,500 plus”. He said the cause of the flood remained unestablished, citing unconfirmed accounts of a lake burst and an earthquake. “We don’t know,” he said, tears streaming down his face. “We are seeking permission through the Indian embassy and the Chinese embassy in India, and American embassy is working on this,” he said.
