Sadhguru says doctors were sure he would die after being sick for 12 weeks, had 107 degrees temperature: ‘I didn’t get surgery, went to Kailash’

Sadhguru, in a chat with R Madhavan, shared that he was told by doctors around the world that he would die, as he suffered high fever for 12 weeks, temperature went as high as 107 degrees.

By: Entertainment Desk

New Delhi | August 27, 2025 03:56 PM IST

In a chat with Madhavan, Sadhguru spoke about his visits to Mount Kailash. (Photo: Sadhguru/Instagram)

Sadhguru recently shared a conversation with actor R Madhavan on his YouTube channel where the founder of Isha Foundation spoke about the time he was told by doctors that he was going to die. He shared that he was running a fever for over 12 weeks but ultimately, he felt better only when he visited Mount Kailash. While he did not clearly explain the medicine that helped his health, he shared that “one strand” changed him as a person.

He shared, “All the doctors had given up on me. They thought I would die because I was running a temperature continuously. I was in California. They thought this was some kind of typhoid and they treated me for that. Then I went to Australia, they thought this was some kind of malaria and they treated me for that. Then I came to India, they treated me for 3 types of malaria and then they thought it was dengue and they treated me for that. Again I was in the UK doing a program, they thought it was some kind of malignant fever because my lymph nodes started swelling up in my neck and it became excruciatingly painful but I had schedules and I was going on and on.”

Sadhguru shared that when he came back to California to speak at an engagement, a doctor in the audience advised him to urgently see a doctor. “I didn’t know he was a doctor and he raised his hand. He said, ‘You need to go to the emergency room right now’. I said, ‘Yes, I know that’. He said, ‘You need to go now’. Because if I sat in one place, my clothes would be completely wet in 10 minutes. Because I had been running a temperature for more than 12 weeks and I was still travelling internationally and doing programs and everything,” he said.

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After this, he was treated for a “strange kind of typhoid” and returned to India. “I had three weeks of shooting for some Tamil TV show and one day, I felt like my brain was getting totally fried and I checked the temperature and it said 107. Then, without thinking, I went and stood under a cold shower with my clothes on and stood there for 10 minutes.Then whatever happened, they said go for a surgery, I didn’t go for a surgery, I came to Kailash,” he said.

Sadhguru said that he traveled to Mount Kailash and that proved to be a life changing moment for him. “When I told this to the doctor, he said that is the smartest thing you have done in your life, standing under the shower. At 107, you are very near to fatality. 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.”

Madhavan wondered what he meant by “one strand” and Sadhguru shared, “I am just using words so that there is some idea of how to pitch… Knowledge is stored in a certain way, it’s like Shiva’s dreadlocks, it’s stored in strands, I took one strand and just in 20 minutes, everything about me changed.” He added, “When I came back, medical tests said I am absolutely fantastic. I am just telling you, it is a different level of knowing. Anything you ever wish to know about this universe, it is all there if you are willing to open up but since then, I have not been able to stop. I have gotten addicted to Kailash. Every year I am here.”

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