00:00Namaste Acharyaji. So my question is around this rebirth and reincarnation and around
00:15this science of reincarnation. I have heard about this through my colleague and he was
00:24talking about the University of Virginia and they have been doing research on this science
00:36of reincarnation. So they have found a baby who can remember the past life memories. So
00:47can you throw some lights on those? Can you throw some light on this University of Virginia
00:54first thing? Where is the research paper? Where is the proof? I can say no, University
01:01of Virginia has never done any such research and no such baby ever existed. How will you
01:07refute my claim? Facts are to be greatly respected. Rumours are not to be treated as
01:18facts. Anybody can create anything from imagination and float it around. That is not to be quoted
01:28as a fact. If it's a university, then the research paper would most probably be public.
01:35Had it not been public, the news wouldn't have reached you.
01:43Do we even understand the implications? Was such a paper to be published ever?
01:51Please understand what it would do to the entire field of identity.
01:57It would have great consequences on every sphere of human activity.
02:03Everything would be upturned. Sir, nothing like this has ever been proven.
02:15And it conversely tells about the composition and intentions of those who believe in such things.
02:25They would very liberally appropriate the name of any high-ranking scientific institution
02:34just to prove that reincarnation in the lowest sense possible does happen. What does that tell
02:42about their own composition? That these people are liars. Had I had any substance in my claim,
02:51would I have proceeded to substantiate my claim with lies, University of Virginia?
03:06Yes. There is nothing in it, sir. Nothing.
03:15And also, please remember,
03:17basics of probability, probability as in mathematics.
03:28If you take a billion monkeys and just give them keypads,
03:39one of them will be able to type something meaningful.
03:42It has been said that if you take enough monkeys and give them pens,
03:48one of them would surely be able to write down all the works of Shakespeare.
03:53That is just probability. You only have to have sufficient number of monkeys and that will happen.
04:04So, if you look at the 800 crore people who are alive,
04:08look at the 800 crore people who are alive and the numbers that have been diseased,
04:18just randomly, just by way of probability,
04:26if you go to all these people who were kids once and ask them to utter something about their previous life,
04:35a few people would end up saying something meaningful.
04:43That does not mean that there is something in it. That is just the law of randomness.
04:55Okay. What's there on this table next to me? Please tell me.
05:00I can't see. Okay, try.
05:09No, I cannot. But if I ask you to just try.
05:13Yes. What would you say?
05:17A ball maybe. Okay. Now, if I give you
05:21infinite number of tries, will you not succeed in giving the correct answer at least once?
05:27Yes. That is called probability.
05:30That is called probability. Given an infinite number of attempts, anything is possible.
05:41Anything is possible. So, if you take all the kids
05:47who are born and ask them, please tell us something about your previous birth,
05:53one or two of them will end up saying something meaningful.
05:57That proves nothing. In fact, that only proves that mathematics is great.
06:07No place of any repute has ever conducted any conclusive research on this reincarnation thing.
06:16In fact, the scientific community, the world over takes it as something of a joke.
06:24It is not even considered a subject fit enough to be taken for a serious study.
06:32Yes, studies have been done. But those studies have amounted to nothing. Nothing came out of them.
06:39You must also reflect on why a lot of people insist on things like personal reincarnation.
06:50You must ask, what stake do they have? Why do they so forcefully insist that,
06:56yes, if I die, I will be reincarnated as a human being.
07:00You must ask, what stake do they have? Why do they so forcefully insist that,
07:07yes, if I die, I will be reborn as somebody else.
07:12What is it in their psyche that impels them
07:18to believe in, to aggressively believe in the concept of reincarnation?
07:23The answer will be very interesting.
07:30When you are living an unfulfilled life, then the concept of reincarnation comes as a saviour.
07:39However, it is also the same concept that prevents you from bringing richness and meaning and joy
07:55to this one life that you have.
07:59You are told, I have so many lives and the subsequent lives will probably be better.
08:06If you are in turmoil, in bondage currently,
08:12then you are saved from challenging your fears and your bondages with the greatest ferocity.
08:21How? You say, you know, I somehow deserve my sorry state.
08:26I must have done something in my past lives to deserve the pain that I have now.
08:32So, there is no need to fight against my suffering and my bondage
08:38because I anyway deserve it. It is my Karmphal.
08:44What annoys me is that both these concepts, which are interrelated of course,
08:52reincarnation and karma are attributed to the Gita,
08:57whereas the Gita very forcefully destroys both these concepts.
09:04But fantastic are the ways of Maya.
09:11Yes.
09:13Thank you, Asalji.
09:15Welcome.
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