Sadhguru Breaks Down As 80 Of Isha Group Missing In Nepal Flood: "Terrible, Extraordinary Event"
Sadhguru of the Isha Foundation has reported that 80 members of a pilgrimage group are missing following a devastating flash flood at the Nepal-Tibet border. The group was at an immigration facility when the disaster struck, and search efforts are currently complicated by the lack of communication.
Why it matters
The involvement of international citizens in a major natural disaster underscores the global impact of the event and the difficulties in tracking missing persons in remote border regions.
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."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.
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