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Asked whether the gods were visitors from space, Sadhguru treats that fashion as mostly fantasy. People look up when they say God, he jokes, so the gods must live off this world and therefore be aliens. He will not call the idea impossible. A visit to Manasarovar and Mount Kailash keeps him from a flat denial, and he leaves only a thin share as possible truth. The rest is guesswork. When something cannot be explained, humans have long imagined that somebody from elsewhere did the work. Stories of invasions from the sky, he adds, sell fear, and he would rather welcome any real arrival than make war among the stars. His concrete case is the Kailash temple in India. It was not piled up from blocks. The hall was cut downward out of the mountain. Workers with simple hand tools took away an immense mass of stone, and he calls that one of the finest human feats. He will not hand the credit to outsiders.
Key points
- He treats nearly all of the alien god fashion as guesswork, with only a thin margin left open.
- Standing at Manasarovar and Kailash stops him from saying the idea is wholly empty.
- Unexplained monuments, he says, have always been blamed on someone who came from somewhere else.
- Film plots about wars with visitors from space are a business in fear, and he mocks them.
- The Kailash temple was carved downward out of the mountain rather than built by stacking stone.
- He keeps that feat with human craft and will not assign it to aliens.
Short quotes
There is a five percent element of truth to it.
Sadhguru, Sadhguru on alien gods
He is dividing the alien god idea into a little possible truth and a great deal of guesswork. Watch at 1:36
Just with hammer and chisel, four million tons of rock was removed and they built a temple.
Sadhguru, Sadhguru on alien gods
He credits ordinary hand labor for the mass of rock cleared to form the Kailash temple. Watch at 6:11
Video by Sadhguru. Watch on YouTube.