Madhavan asks Sadhguru about riding to Mount Kailash months after undergoing two brain surgeries: ‘When the head is broken, it’s best to…’

Upon listening to his answer, Madhavan said, “What a wonderful attitude!” and wondered what gave him this kind of energy to take on such a humungous task. As Madhavan asked what he ate, Sadhguru sincerely replied that he had upma for breakfast.

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He shared that he has been visiting Mount Kailash for many years now but for the last five years, he had been visiting close to Lake Masoravar from the Nepalese side, as China had closed the entry for the site. He shared that he wished to visit last year as well but he couldn’t because of his ill health. “I missed last year because I had a broken head. I broke it twice, not once,” he said and laughed.

In the same chat, Sadhguru also spoke about the time when he was running a fever for 12 weeks and was told by doctors that he could die. He survived after he went to Mount Kailash. “I came to Kailash. I had lost my muscle mass. My thighs had lost almost 1/4th of the muscle in those 12 weeks. But in that condition, I came to Kailash and I sat there. Then I saw the humungous richness that was there. I just took one strand of that. You won’t believe in 20 minutes, I was a new man, I trekked all the way up and down,” he said.

Sadhguru on his two brain surgeries

Earlier, Sadhguru had opened up on his second brain surgery which happened after he banged into glass and cracked his head. “My daughter and I were swimming in the pool. I had a plastic wrap on my wound and was swimming a little bit because I need the exercise. A big monkey came and wanted to go inside because there were lots of fruits inside. So, my daughter instinctively screamed at the monkey, and the monkey turned around, coming with its mouth open. I instinctively got up. I had my walking stick inside and I ran for it. Somebody had closed the door so I went and banged full speed into the glass. The glass made such a big bang that the monkey ran away. So the purpose was served, but my head was cracked.”

After a scan, it was discovered that he had a massive bleeding in his brain was detected both “outside the brain and below the bone”.

Doctors had warned Sadhguru that if he hit his head, this is it. “I thought I would wait till that night and see if there are any symptoms. Immediately, imbalance will happen or pain will happen..all that…The next morning, I woke up…I was fine. The next three days of the program I went through, and then I flew to Coimbatore city. From the airport, I went straight to a scan. Once again, bleeding. Then I went for another surgery,” Sadhguru said. he suffered extreme reaction after the surgery even though he didn’t have any infection. However, he managed to pull through.