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 this the University of Virginia and they have been they have been doing research on
00:34this science of reincarnation. So they have they have found a baby who can remember the past life
00:44memories. So can you throw some lights on those? Can you throw some light on this University of
00:53Virginia first thing? Where is the research paper? Where is the proof? I can say no University of
01:01Virginia has never done any such research and no such baby ever existed. How will you refute my claim?
01:10Facts are to be greatly respected.
01:13Rumours are not to be treated as facts. Anybody can create anything from imagination and float it around.
01:26That is not to be quoted as a fact. If it's a university, then the research paper would most
01:34probably be public. Had it not been public, the news won't have reached you.
01:38Do 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. Everything would be upturned.
02:06Sir, nothing like this has ever been proven.
02:15And it conversely tells about the composition and intentions of those who believe in such things.
02:26They would very liberally appropriate the name of any high-ranking scientific institution
02:33just to prove that reincarnation in the lowest sense possible does happen.
02:41What does that tell about their own composition? That these people are liars.
02:48Had I had any substance in my claim, would I have proceeded to substantiate my claim
02:57with lies, University of Virginia?
03:08There is nothing in it, sir. Nothing.
03:14And also, please remember,
03:16basics of probability. Probability as in mathematics.
03:26If you take a billion monkeys and just give them keypads,
03:38one of them will be able to type something meaningful.
03:41One of them will be able to type something meaningful.
03:46It has been said that if you take enough monkeys and give them pens,
03:52one of them would surely be able to write down all the works of Shakespeare.
03:57That is just probability. You only have to have sufficient number of monkeys and that will happen.
04:05So, if you look at the 800 crore people who are alive and the numbers that have been diseased,
04:17just randomly, just by way of probability,
04:24if 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.
04:42That does not mean that there is something in it. That is just the law of randomness.
04:54Okay. What's there on this table next to me? Please tell me.
04:59I 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 wall 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.
06:40Nobody takes this seriously.
06:45You must also reflect on why a lot of people insist on things like personal reincarnation.
06:56You must ask, what stake do they have? Why do they so forcefully insist that yes, if I die,
07:04why do they so forcefully insist that yes, if I die, I will be reborn as somebody else?
07:12What is it in their psyche that impels them
07:18to aggressively believe in the concept of reincarnation? The answer will be very
07:26interesting.
07:30When you are living an unfulfilled life, then the concept of reincarnation comes as a saviour.
07:40However, 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, you know, I have so many lives and the subsequent lives will probably be better.
08:07If you are in turmoil, in bondage currently,
08:13then 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.
08:27I 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 because I anyway deserve it.
08:39It is my karmaphal and what annoys me is that both these concepts, which are interrelated,
08:51of course, reincarnation 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.
09:10Yes.
09:13Thank you, Asadji.
09:15Welcome.
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