Video Information: 02.04.2023, IIT-Delhi, Delhi
Context:
Is time travel possible?
Do you think that people will achieve time travel in the future?
Imagine people can time travel.
Imagine you could time travel.
If you could stop time, what would you do and why?
Who said time travel possible?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Context:
Is time travel possible?
Do you think that people will achieve time travel in the future?
Imagine people can time travel.
Imagine you could time travel.
If you could stop time, what would you do and why?
Who said time travel possible?
Music Credits: Milind Date
~~~~~
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00:00 Acharya ji Pranam, I am Pranjul, student of IIT Delhi. I want to understand the concept
00:07 of time travel or timelessness. Is it there, is it any spiritual side to it or it's just
00:14 a product of human mind? It's a fantasy. Where does the future come from? Where does
00:23 the future come from? The future comes from the choices that you make today, right? You
00:29 are there and the material world is there and you are a creature of choice. If you are
00:37 not a creature of choice, everything is deterministic and then life is not worth living. There is
00:44 no freedom. If everything is predetermined, where is the question of freedom then? And
00:51 freedom is the highest spiritual ideal. So you are a conscious person and by definition
00:58 consciousness is choice, which means there are an infinite number of futures possible.
01:06 If you say you are travelling into the future, which particular future are you travelling
01:10 into? Which particular future? So all this time travel is just fantasy, a nice thing
01:18 to entertain the mind, there is not much more in it. Sir, some related with the gravity,
01:24 more the gravity, slower the time could be and some say when you travel more than the
01:30 speed of light, the time slows down. So is there any sense to it or it's just for fun?
01:42 Slowing down of time is one thing, negative time is a totally different thing, right?
01:52 Also remember that when you travel at the speed of light, you are not you anymore. So
02:05 we talk of travelling at the speed of light as if some new technology is just on its way.
02:12 What is your weight by the way? Let us say 70 kg. You know how mass behaves with speed,
02:21 right? What will happen to your mass? You will be an impossible mass as your velocity
02:34 approaches that of light. Have you not heard of that m is equal to m naught by root 1 minus
02:42 v square by c square, standard equation? And then from where will the energy come to
02:48 accelerate you any further? If mass is increasing to those levels, from where will you get the
02:56 energy for acceleration? Infinite mass will require infinite energy. So all that is quite
03:11 titillating but still quite pointless. Sir, I have often heard from women that they have
03:25 sixth sense. Is it for real or just a man-made theory? It's not a new thing nor is it specific
03:39 to women. The scriptures have always said that the mind is the sixth jnanendriya. So
03:50 classically that's the way they put it. They said there are five senses of knowledge,
03:56 there are five senses of action and then they also talk of eleventh sense. That's the
04:02 mind. How? To watch something you require this particular sense, right? It is called
04:11 the eye. So watching should be dependent on the eye. Let's see. Close the eyes. Close
04:21 your eyes. How many of you are still not watching something? Is it so that you are not watching
04:28 anything now? You are still watching, right? From where is that coming? That's coming from
04:34 the mind. That's the sixth sense. Even if you plug your ears, you'll still hear sounds.
04:40 From where are those sounds coming? From where do dreams come? They all come from the mind.
04:47 So the mind is the sixth sense, nothing else. So what is this thing that you classically
04:52 call as the sixth sense? It is nothing but the deposit of past experiences. You see each
05:01 single one of us is carrying millions of years of experiences in every single cell, right?
05:09 That's the process of evolution. We have not just descended in one particular day. All
05:16 those experiences are contained within us. There is a reason why you have the thumb.
05:20 Why do you have the thumb? So this thumb is coming from experiences of the past, right?
05:27 There is a reason why you don't have a fifth finger. When you have a thumb, then you are
05:31 able to do something very special. What is it? This kind of a posture is not possible
05:39 with a fifth finger. And the moment you can do this, you can hold something. Are you getting
05:46 it? There is a reason why your brain is more developed than the brain of the monkey or
05:52 the chimpanzee. Because you walk on these two feet. And therefore you can have subtler blood
05:59 vessels in your brain. The blood pressure reduces when the head is erect. If you are
06:06 walking on all fours like animals, then the head and the heart are at the same horizontal
06:13 level. The blood pressure is higher. So finer vessels cannot develop there. And when you
06:20 have finer vessels, then you have finer intellect. So all this is coming from the past and we
06:25 have accumulated experiences of the past. And those experiences are helpful.
06:35 A little rabbit, tell me, how does it know that it has to become alert when a cat approaches
06:42 it? Has the rabbit been shown pics in advance? This is catty and run away when you see her.
06:51 Has that happened? But very small rabbit, 15 days old and still if it sees a cat, it
06:58 knows, run, run. How does it know? That knowledge is contained in the body. So the human body
07:10 too, just like the rabbit's body contains a lot of knowledge from the past. And that
07:18 knowledge is helpful when you have situations that are identical to those in the past. That
07:26 is a huge condition, mind you. For a rabbit, knowledge of the body is sufficient because
07:33 the rabbit never faces a condition that is not similar to conditions it has faced in
07:38 the past. The rabbit was living in a jungle, 10 lakh years back, the rabbit is still living
07:44 in the jungle. So all the physical knowledge is helpful because the conditions are repeating
07:51 themselves. But human beings, we are no more living in conditions that are identical to
07:59 the ones millions of years back. So the knowledge that is there in the body can be helpful or
08:05 can be very dangerous. The knowledge in the body can be helpful or can be very dangerous
08:12 because our conditions have changed. Are you getting it? A rabbit looks at a female rabbit
08:20 and runs after her. And that is all okay because the rabbit is in the jungle where it is an
08:29 animal of prey, which means its population is constantly being attacked. Therefore it
08:34 needs to procreate at a rapid speed. Therefore the rabbit's body says the moment you look
08:40 at a female, pounce upon her. Otherwise the entire species will go extinct and that is
08:45 alright. But the same knowledge is there in the man's body as well. It is just that you
08:51 are no more threatened. In fact, today you are the species that is threatening all other
08:56 species. But still the man's body because of the past experience feels like pouncing
09:02 upon the woman's body. It's not that the man is to be condemned as over sexual. It's just
09:10 that evolutionary training of the past. To have a stable population, you needed to have
09:18 the woman constantly pregnant. Otherwise mankind would have gone extinct. But that kind of
09:25 an obligation, does it exist even today? It does not exist today. So conditions have changed
09:30 but the body has not changed. Body is still behaving as if you are living in the… that's
09:37 why the woman's sixth sense often betrays her because it is acting as if the conditions
09:46 are primitive. But the conditions are no more primitive. Therefore you have to be very careful
09:54 when you have intuitions or instincts and advises from your sixth sense. You have to
10:00 be very careful. It can be useful and it can be very dangerous. Are you getting it? Sometimes
10:09 it can be useful. For example, you smell smoke. Immediately the adrenaline levels in your
10:17 blood will spike. Why has adrenaline risen in your blood? So that you can have more glucose
10:28 which is more energy so that you can… because you used to have forest fires in the past
10:36 as well. So the body has learned that the moment you smell smoke, you get a rush of
10:42 energy so that you can run fast. If you don't run fast, you will be consumed by the fire.
10:47 So all that is okay when it comes to those physical things. But that is not okay when
10:53 it comes to all the matters that involve events, incidents of today. Are you getting it? So
11:03 you should learn to be a witness of your sixth sense which means you must learn to be a witness
11:08 of your mind. The mind will tell you something. Does it happen or not? Someone comes to you
11:15 and even without knowing much about the person, you feel like saying, "Oh, this is a wicked
11:19 fellow." Does it happen or not? Women claim to have a more active sixth sense. So it happens
11:28 more with them. Now why does it happen more with them? Because historically they have
11:33 been physically the weaker sex. Therefore, they were more in need of protection. One,
11:40 the body was weaker. Second, there were large periods of pregnancy, extended periods of
11:47 helplessness. So she needed to rely on advanced instinct. Otherwise, she would have been killed.
11:55 She can't run. She is pregnant. Even if she can run, how about the chotu? So she needed
12:03 to be cautious in advance. Therefore, she developed the sixth sense more than the man.
12:10 That was a historical imperative. Is that historical imperative needed even today I
12:15 am asking? No. So there is no need to talk so much about the sixth sense etc. Rather
12:22 talk about wisdom. Your wisdom is far more important than any sense or something. Spirituality
12:27 is about transcending all senses. All wisdom is about transcending the mind. Do not depend
12:34 on your thoughts, your emotions and also your instincts. None of them matter too much. To
12:40 some extent they are useful. Yes. Beyond that, you should know that they are just biological,
12:45 physical. So they cannot be trusted. Are you getting it? Do not just say it is my gut feel.
12:54 The gut feel and all is not of much worth. Or that thing today, that vibes. I am not
13:04 getting the right kind of vibes from this fellow. That's the function of an animal.
13:08 Are you still an animal to trust vibes and all? If you are a human being, you will not
13:13 trust vibes. You will inquire, you will go close, you will ask, who are you? Where are
13:17 you coming from? What do you mean? You will engage that person in an argument. Or if you
13:23 are too suspicious, you will do a background check, right? You will not say I am getting
13:27 vibrations. What is this? So all that is a thing of the animal. Do not be too respectful
13:40 of that. Now you also know what this thing about falling
13:54 in love is. That too is a biological thing coming from the past. Just as you get bad
14:01 vibes, they also call it low frequency vibrations, right? Science is indeed progressing. Low
14:07 frequency vibrations. Wow. Frequency matching. So, not all that. The other side of the coin
14:20 is you look at someone and say, oh, this is the one for me. I am getting just the right
14:24 kind of vibes. No, no, no. You don't get to know like this. The senses are not trustworthy.
14:36 Thoughts deceive. Experiences are partial. Do you know the great thing about the Jain
14:47 philosophy? From where has it brought non-violence to you? It's called Nayavada. It says, do
14:55 not trust, do not trust. All experiences are to the ego, do not trust. No experience is
15:03 trustworthy. All the knowledge that you have is partial because you are the partial entity.
15:09 You are the ego and the ego is never complete. The ego is an appurna thing, partial. Therefore,
15:16 never trust your senses, which means do not trust your eyes, do not trust your ears and
15:20 never never trust your enquire, enquire, enquire. And that's what gives the Jain path and consequently
15:30 the entire Indian thought a lot of tolerance. Because you say, whatever I am saying is partial.
15:36 Whatsoever he is saying is partial. So, how do I attack him? I cannot say what I am saying
15:43 is the absolute thing and even that which he is saying can never be the absolute thing.
15:48 So, how can I attack him? How can I attack him? Know that all this is just very partial
15:55 because the recipient of all sensory input is the ego. It is the ego to which all the
16:03 senses deliver their messages and that's the ego by definition is partial, partial, not
16:10 absolute. So, enquire, know, know. Be a witness of the mind. In that the knowers have said
16:22 that there is completeness.