Nepal’s ‘living goddess’; 8-year-old incarnation of Kali tries to lead a normal life
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Nepalese Ojaswi Ghulu was only eight months old in 2014 when she was chosen to become the “Living Goddess of Panauti”, revered by the nation’s Hindus as the incarnation of the goddess of power, Kali. Now at age eight, the girl is experiencing a mostly normal childhood, attending school, playing and pursuing personal interests. But she is kept separate from others while eating or while at play, and stands out when she appears in public in full regalia twice a year. The youngster is worshipped for 10 days during the festival of Dashain and on Ram Navami, two major Hindu festivals in Nepal.
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"When I was your age, I used to be friends with a goddess"
That did be the biggest flex, imagine being friends with a girl who's the incarnation of Goddess Durga
Found it ..the golden comment
Funny comment you made, Thumbs up you get.
@@lonesomefencesitter3186 Happy he is
Where is she now?
The most popular kid is treated like a Goddess, literally.
But after the coming of age, they will be replaced with a new younger one
@@gambler942 oh i thought until she died. thank for your information
not popular..it is very hard to be kumari...
She retires as soon as she hits puberty. After then she is a normal person. But until then, she receives full honour of being a goddess. Education is given in form of homeschooling.
Sad life
@@comradeleppi2000 Really? Why do you think so? It's not like we are harassing or hurting her. Why do you see 'wrong' in something different?
@@comradeleppi2000 reserved that word to those who actually are
How sad , delusion of grandeur at It finest .
Sad really sad!
Sad that little girl misses out on a lot! I wish her a lot of happiness and a normal life!
@Storm raider She lives a different life… Didnt you hear what the teacher said??? Are you deaf???
@@charlielowes8495 she gets prestige you only dream of. For normality girls always live life in discipline. In Nepal if you give pizza and say it is freedom then they will kick your pizza and eat MOMO which are their own and MOMO show you freedom 😁😁😁😁
@@charlielowes8495 yeah, she lives different life.
She gets a lot of respect which may girls don't get.
@@veshrajshrestha3710 huh
@@charlielowes8495 that teacher didn't explained well. She is treated different at first by other kids, cause she had been goddess till the day. Since, she has retired now, she is in the process of being normal person. It takes time but she will be just another kid in the class within few months.
It is hard to try and keep that you are a deity a secret when everyone around you already knows it for some strange reason...
she is just literally getting her time wasted by this weird tradition
You are taking her childhood for granted
No offense but I think you need to go to Nepal so you know how much they worship God's,also Nepal is divided into many Tribes.
@@rededitzthegoat Worship not as belief but as a celebration of culture that has passed from hundreads of years.
nope, the girls get to choose if they want to be a goddess. It's like a little contest and girls try hard to become one if they cared
@@cam._.ar1 bmto be kumari is not so easy...
@@laughterthebestmedicine1947 never said it was- I said the girls decide if they want to be one
Well... if this is their tradition and it not harm anyone, i'll praise for that.
Being a Hindu I need an explanation about these people coming to this conclusion that she is Kali. This feels like a grave child exploitation for own benefit to me I mean they have already seperated her from kids her age. She would end up living isolated and even confused after marriage if she follows this narrative.
being treated like goddess is not bad lol
Ali
That's so unbelievable
Relax buddy, there is nothing wrong happening here, I too am a Hindu 🙏
चुप्प चूतीया l बिना कुछ पता लगाए यहां बैठा सवाल उठा रहा है और ज़वाब जाने बिना आलोचना भी कर रहा है ll
Religion hits too much
@Fluffy Maximus no, only people who believe in elves and fairies would believe in that.
@@nazbmn242 you nailed it
@@nazbmn242 lol.....
There is a long list of weird things in Hinduism
@@rudra20048 not weird, ...you'll never understand our culture and rituals cuz you don't live them so shut your mouth...
This is a unique tradition, and I think it's quite positive because they put these girls on pedestals-literally and not so literally XD- these girls live as normal as possible, but the people around them will try to make sure she's not hurt or bleeding physically because it's supposed to be bad omen for their believers if they're hurt or injured.
As for normal life, these girls will stop carrying the duties as soon as puberty kicks in. So they'll be able to live normal life as teens upward. I think they don't miss much when it comes to childhood- they go to school, play with their classmates, have hobbies etc. It's just that they must be careful not to get open wounds or something like that.
When they appear on those important festivals- twice a year?- they're sitting on high chairs and served like kings&queens, I think other little girls and boys around them will envy that experience instead.
I mean... there's way more to it than that and I feel pretty sorry for the Kumari
right because putting a little kids on a pedestal is surely gonna be great for them.
@@EricChien95 better than parading them on catwalks and competing for beauty queens.
@@notimportant3932 she might have super powers in her. 😇😇
Maa Khali is Gooddess, Mother of Divine and She removes negatives & it's obstacles!❤️💪👍
Tu pagal hai?
Imagine Asian parents brag about their kids going to the same school with Goddess Kali.
This is sad, old cultures infringing on a person's ability live a normal life.
So do lockdowns by tyrannical governments over a non deadly disease.
In the end, human still mortal.Everyone should treat each other the same
Not true what makes human human is they are all different the difference is what makes the world intresting she can decide whether or not to be like that annyway but she has chosen her path so others have no rights to complain
@@twitter1288 I would like to understand. How did She choose this? Didn't her parents make that decision, when she is living in a very Traditional customs environment? The video doesn't say how she was chosen. How does that work?
@@X-Fauve no offense but I think you should go to Nepal to learn about them
If anyone is concerned about the wellbeing of kumaris then they can watch the interviews of Kumaris who have already reached adulthood. It really gives you insight on what this tradition is about.
link?
@@sushant7569can you type?
And there goes her childhood. 🤦♂️people
It's even better now before Kumari would be in her home, and homeschooling, and couldn't get out of her house....
She won’t be treated like a goddess any longer as soon as she hits puberty..she would be living like a normal person
इसाई धर्म हाहा
who even are you to say that. you are not even related to that child or have a knowledge of that custom
This is so unfair to this poor little girl. She didn't choose this for herself. Why should she be treated differently at school? Did anybody ask if this is what she wants!!!!!?
@Storm raider I don't think anyone would want to be treated differently let alone an 8 year old going to school for the first time
It's a beautiful culture and tradition. It may be little different than your culture, and you might feel a little bizarre but she is living a life quite beautifully and respectable than others. 😊🙏
@Sophia Ma Why don't you come and visit this traditional ceremony ? You might get a chance to observe this culture through your own perspective .. Welcome !!!
OF COURSE BECAUSE THATS NEPAL CULTURE NOT YOUR AMERICAN CULTURE ITS SIFFERENT IN NEPAL AND AMERICA 😡😡😡😡
But changing their gender is totally ok👍
Literal child exploitation, your beliefs shouldn't be imposed on others, especially children.
I agree but there are bigger forms of child exploitation such as general mutilation in Africa.
Ikr
@@alchemist7412 her life isn't any less valid cause of d bigger prbs
At least do some research before disrespecting someone's culture or traditions🙏
And your belief should not be opposed in Nepal. Maybe she doesn’t like it but it’s very possible she’s very happy in her ways
A student is treated like a goddess. Now where hav I seen that before?
*Komi Can't Communicate*
I hate this so much. NOBODY should impose anything on anyone. Not even religion. Her normal school life and memories are all destroyed.
once again why stay generalized?? Say what you mean, direct it to the topic at hand, don't clump others not associated to this?!?
Hasty generalization and appeal to extremes. People nowadays disrespect other cultures because they think they "knew" better, when in reality, they don't.
इसाई धर्म हा हा हा
I'm sure this tradition brings joy and hope to many of her faith. I just hope she also finds great joy in her childhood in spite of it, rather than being involuntarily made into an accidental martyr
🇳🇵🇳🇵love from Nepal 🇳🇵 ❤
It's hard out there for a goddess of death
Not death but destruction and female power and righteous wild anger and vengeance
I’ll say
I'm happy that they treat her much better than how they did back then
What do u mean by back then??
They were treated better than most of the children back then.
@@happyman9000 watch the documentary about living goddess of Nepal....as far as I'm concerned it's an old tradition where a child is chosen and worshipped as a goddess until she comes of age ...she lives in isolation at her own temple and people come everyday to take her blessings....it's still in practice.....
Back then they weren't allowed to be touched, nor allowed to talk and kept in a room isolated from the world except for when people came to get blessings......but now they can at least go to school, see the world outside and still carry on the tradition......ig the comment meant that they have less restrictions as opposed to how it was decades ago
@@___palpasa___2282 I am sorry but I do know my country's culture and history.
Most of the documentaries are made by people not from our culture or country. So u know what that means the info gathered are not complete accurate. they miss out some information like this video as an example
@@happyman9000 he is telling truth
People still believe in things like this in this day and age?
I found it to be very hilarious...but mostly just plain sad.
Real Instead.
Previous Kumari was crying a lot for a day for no reasons. Everyone was trying make for not to cry.
But she was crying a lot. Everyone thinks it's a bad sign.
And in the same night, there was Royal Massacre.
And after the royal massacre, she stoped crying and said "It's the End" (in Nepali)
There is a podcast of her (in Nepali language)
Lol ikr
@@taakyaavibes okay 🤡
Better than believing in flat earth
There are also people who believe there is a gigantic man living in the sky and send missionaries to remote international locations to convert marginalised people so...
ya'll need to read up on Kumari's before commenting, there's alot more to it than makeup and injury prevention. Tradition varies from area to area but there's alot of questionable parts to the traditions of living goddesses in little girls
Shes the most powerful irl anime character
This is the Newar community of Kathmandu valley.
The length people will go to keep their faith alive. I'd like to know the process they chose to prove she's a goddess. Is it like how they chose the next incarnation of the Dali Lama?
She should have been kept in the dark about it until she was older, Da Vinci Code style... Then she could be raised as "normal" as possible and truly understand the people who worship the deities she represents
Yess
She just a girl, human being, feel sorry for her
That's plain mocking a country's culture...no one is hurting her...at least do some research before saying something that disrespect others!
1:11 um, what happens after she's matured?
She retires as soon as she hits puberty. Then she is a normal person. But until then, she receives a full honour of being a goddess.
@@cosmoiris8923 Na, they marry, get jobs, have kids; everything a person does. Who told you those nonsense. We have tonnes of ex-kumaries cause most of them retire at the age between 8 - 12. All of them living like we do.
@@cosmoiris8923 there is a documentary about it. You are actually right.
Now im confused either im right or not but but yeah that’s what i heard
@@cosmoiris8923 check Life of a Kumari Goddess on Vice (TH-cam channel) if you are interested to know about it more. I actually learned about the life story from this video
Jai Maa Kaali 🙏
Ali sher khuda ...Ali waliullah
No expectations or anything kid, you're just a regular goddess. Just have fun!
Possessed by the goddess of death at that age!? That's totally demonic.
It's not Goddess kali it's Goddess DURGA, who's is the goddess of Strength and divine energy more like she is more Worshiped as divine energy.....and she kaal, the time herself
Kali is not goddess of death, she is Godesss of ending and transformation, bravery and power. She is pure divine energy and divine feminine. It has nothing do with demon or demonic because she has killed demons herself. 😌
You don’t even know anything and yet you comment on it… this is ironic
Twist is HER ACTUAL POWERS manifest @ 19 years of Age. Comet Summoming. Ki Scimitars Flying All Around
Beauty of Hinduism
It's just unnecessary pressure for someone trying to enjoy being a kid. The principal is talking nonsense, how about adults should behave accordingly and be role model for kids.
Their traditions hv caught a hold of their mental capabilities
The principal is ridiculous
Yeah This also happens in India 🇮🇳. 🌷🌺🙏Jai Maa Kali🙏🌺 🌷
"In some way she is treated differently" well it'd be weirder if you didn't react to a person with a painted forehead for the first time
She's as beautiful as always😊
When your goddess is a normal human being and not even immortal
Jesus was also mortal. That's not point at all here.
do you know about spirit?
body is like a dress of soul/spirit
The fear of others kid of offending her..when you're a goddess n others were human then there's no normal life.. it's two different races.
जय हो मां 🙏 ❤ 🌼 🌸 🌻
I remember watching videos about a living Goddess, it says that her feet should not touch the ground...wonder why she's allowed to walk?
Those traditions which can adapt to time are the ones which last for long. In todays world it isn't possible to keep a person inside a house forever. It would be denying them their basic rights, which is why some changes are being made.
Remember, religion conversion is illegal in Nepal 🇳🇵
That's on paper. By heart we can convert and follow anything we want. That's the real essence
@@imaad2882 but you cannot manipulate others to do the same. That is the law.
Religion conversion should be legal because poverty is decreasing
@@laughterthebestmedicine1947 the thre@t of disruption of social harmony and degradation of one's native culture and identity is much more serious than the positive effects of receiving a sack of Grain from someone wishing to expand the group they follow.
@@laughterthebestmedicine1947 The said sack of grain often have bible inside them.
I thought they were not supposed to have their feet touching the ground? I saw an old docu of the same topic before but I guess things have changed over time, huh.
Bare feet may be...
She isnt one of the three prominent Kumaris, so rules are mostly relaxed for her.
Very interesting !
She’s so pretty
Idk great kali have distant relatives from Nepal
just asking, no hate intended. is this girl from the upper castes as per the hindu traditional caste system. as we were taught, brahmin, or just your another girl?
no hate intended again.
@Share Sansar Nepal
Newa have their own caste hierarchy.
There is no caste system in our religion it uneducated hindus about their religion created a misconception about varn and made it caste.
@Share Sansar Nepal
Well Brahmin and Chettris are more privileged along with being a upper caste.
Few upper castes in Newa community enjoy the same status too.
They mostly come from Buddhist family so there is no question being a Brahmin.
Mostly they come from Shakyas community who believe themselves as the descendants of Gautam Buddha and Bajryacharyas who are Master of Tantras.
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There is just way too much child exploitation apologist in the comment section.
"Look, Immortan Joe is dead"
Didn't know the farcry 4 thing was actually real
so, is she supposed to be some kinda vessal or avatar for a goddess or something?
Yup
May she soon be freed from this terrible ritual.
Opposite of an outcast but really similar in a sense.
How many wars has she stopped or what has she done with her great powers? 🙄🤣
No and what you have done by uploading useless videos?
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This reminds me of Doma in Demon Slayer. So this happens in real life too.
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Is she allowed to even marry and have a family? I hope there's an anthropologist/ historian/ Tibetan/ Nepali reading this comment.
She is but
Her astro signs are usually so strong that normal people (doesn't matter arranged or love) are not strong enough to handle it so proper astrological matches are done but different according to traditions
Many former kumaris are married and leading a normal life.
This tradition is being demonised for no reason.
@@Hithere-qj1wj I'm glad to hear it. I hope the tradition is preserved. Same with the choosing of Dalai Lama. In the Philippine highlands, there are still princesses like her, thoigh tribal in nature. Such princesses are not allowed to touch soil, or even be seen by any members of the tribe. She only lives to memorize and recite their tribal history and to dance, appease to their deities...
@@binaydhawa7666 That's sad, but I still hope she'd find a great match for herself in the future. Himalayan cultures are extremely unique and I hope that despite the rapid advancement of technology and of our society, traditions like this will continue on for many many generations.
@@Hithere-qj1wj Bhai these Westerners can't understand our Sanatan Culture 🤡
... What happens after puberty?
They are thrown out
again normal life
how was she picked?
By morons
Hope they at least give some form of monetary compensation. Taking away her childhood but also she has to suffer the reality once they retire her, being a goddess all ur life and suddenly u r a peasant
The girls get monetary compensation, even after they retire.
Its actually Taleju Bhawani, not kali...
Band karo ye chutiyapa...
Ye inka culture he.... Thuje koi right nayi isi tarah baath karne ki
You indians don't understand other cultures and costumes
Try to respect everyone
@@arunpaudel9718 I have seen lot nepali naf india's hating muslim hijab and their culture
pehel ye muchey binaki dadhi rakhna baand Kar.. Joker jaisa aadmi cutiya tu hai aur Tera culture
@@factsbydozen1059 nepali dont but western and indians do
Crazy.
what a joke
This is such a bizarre tradition
@Ululu Kululu I do say
I think I'm also reincarnation of Kali too 😂👌🏻💯
Can we ask her to stop russia ukraine war and israel palestine war? A goddess with deity capability should be able to solve these war issues
@Ululu Kululu so what kind of goddess is she?
she is not for christans😘
Pyari godess!
Childhood destroyed
Poor girl...
Welcome to Earth hope you perform some wonders
anybody thought of bhadra from far cry 4?
It's interesting ,I wanna know more
I will comment about the story of Kumari devi
This is sad
If I was there I would never come near her.what if i made her angry ..she might come for me in my dreams at night
🙏🏽🙏🏽🔥⚡
Why she looks Chindian?
Cause that’s how Nepali and Bhutan look like.
That is how people look like in north India and nepal.
This is insane call Jesus
Yeah but no it's not
Next year we getting jesus reincarnation
@@Noobkid1 I can only hope Amen 🙏
@@Noobkid1 Jesus said he will come from sky to Earth.
@@tayronrenkanyanunggun2961 i dont remember him saying anything like that but i think he will get shot down with missiles by NASA thinking its a foreign creature entering earth
come on man...
What's 🤔
This is worse than the mask mandate
Yeah! Having to wear that paint on her forehead everyday
@@nnconfomiststoic888 Come on, that paint isn't mandatory. She is painted her iconic "third eye" only for events. In video, she is a retired goddess. She is just wearing that make up cause she is used to it since she was a kid.
U have taken away her precious childhood of playful life.
Pitty on d kid.
Paisey bana ne ka acha tharikaa
Oh
Welp, if she had so called power wouldn't she say she doesn't want it or something.
If she don't want that role then she can decline anytime she likes...people have to follow as she like cuz they have to respect her decision...
What the literal F?
Kali maaa a shakti de!!
Child abuse
being choosen as goddess is priveledge not child abuse u fool
@ I'm Hindu but I think it's ruining the childhood of that girl.
And also it's a super old tradition.
Not abuse but yes they took away her childhood....
You watch a 1:28 video and it is child abuse?
@@101yayo yes
2 bad we don't have any in America at least Asian is still carrying the Truth G♀️d is n0t a M🤥N
xD
Ridiculous
This terrible.
Man made goddess made her life in suffering
She cant smile
If Kumari smiles it will be bad luck.
Keep living in the stone age .
Don't come to our culture lol....
I hope goddess kali severes your ego.
More than a tradition: its also a preservation of the uniqueness of culture. U won't understand it.