How Kathmandu’s Swayambunath Was Created Thousands of Years Ago #DailyWisdom
The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes
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🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:29.8 | A few millennia ago, this whole Kathmandu valley was a big lake. |
| 0:35.9 | It was called Naguas. |
| 0:40.3 | That means the abode of the Nagas. Nagas are a type of people who are associated with serpents. |
| 0:46.3 | Maharishi Manjushri, one of the sages who merge with Kalash, |
| 0:52.3 | heard about this, that in the middle of the lake a kind of a |
| 1:00.1 | legendary five-colored lotus flower they say it was made of fire you created a |
| 1:05.3 | gorge through which the water flowed out and drained the lake and enshrined that lotus flower in a place |
| 1:13.6 | where today it is called a Swyambu, they're calling it a stupa. But it was well before Gautam Buddha |
| 1:20.6 | came, thousands of years before that. And then this enshrinement happened because Maharishi's shapa came from Kashi and enshrined this in a small abode. |
| 1:34.3 | Over that, the stupa was built sometime, I don't know when, but now there is a stupa. |
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