00:00Hello. I'm Adarsh. I'm a B.Tech first-year student.
00:06I wanted to ask about the issue of pseudo-science,
00:10like its impact in our daily life because it's in everyone's life.
00:17Everyone faces a day-to-day,
00:19like , and we take major decisions of our lives based on it.
00:27Like, which college to go, who to marry, when should we inaugurate anything or those kind of things.
00:37And when we question it, we are just told it is being followed. You just follow it.
00:42Why do you have to question it?
00:44And it sometimes frustrates us and we can't even question it back.
00:49So how do we, like, how do we challenge it?
00:55Because we don't have that much of liberty to question the elders this precisely.
01:05Am I not an elder?
01:07You are.
01:09How are all of you then raising so many questions to me?
01:15Liberty is not something that somebody gives you some quota of.
01:25Liberty is who you are.
01:28Liberty is not even your birthright.
01:31Liberty is your inner inseparable nature.
01:35You always have that liberty.
01:37The question should be, the more honest expression should be,
01:42I do not exercise my liberty.
01:45Instead you are saying, I do not have that liberty.
01:47You have that liberty.
01:49You don't exercise it.
01:51You don't exercise it out of fear or greed.
01:58If you exercise your liberty, there would be consequences.
02:00That would be a hit on your interests.
02:05You don't want to run that risk, right?
02:08Otherwise, if the mic is not there, the mouth is always there.
02:13Get up and speak.
02:14Who can stop you?
02:15If you want to expose a fraud, participate fully in it.
02:30If you want to expose a fraud, participate fully in it.
02:35They tell you, come beitah lunch karlo, say moorat nikal ke batao.
02:43Participate fully.
02:44For everything, there has to be the kundali, the muhurat and whatever those things are.
02:56Why should all the astro antics and the horoscope thing be related only to marriages?
03:08It should apply to everything.
03:10You want to hire a driver, a maid.
03:15You want to accept someone as friend, ask for their horoscopes.
03:23If it is supposed to affect your life,
03:27then it would affect your life in the form of a friend as well, no?
03:33Or is it only the spouse that affects your life?
03:35Anybody that you are related to, will affect your life, no?
03:47Get it embossed right on your door.
03:49The main gate, don't enter without horoscope and there should be some astro chap available sitting right at the main gate.
04:02Who would check the horoscope and then see whether or not to allow entry.
04:06Even pet dogs must not be adopted without looking at their horoscopes.
04:17Why? They affect our life so much, don't they?
04:20Grand Akshatra Kundali Rashi, some should get them.
04:26Are they not living beings?
04:29All that you need is the time and place of birth that even a pup has.
04:33Yes, we can have a Kundali there also.
04:39Participate fully.
04:44This was more towards the trivial side.
04:49The real thing is, when you say you don't have the liberty for something, the provision for something,
04:56you must look into yourself and ask, ah, come on, who can take it away from me?
05:03I am not insulting you, I am just inquiring, right?
05:07Yes, you are elder to me and that itself entitles me to ask a question, no?
05:14If I won't ask a question to my elders, to whom should I go?
05:20It is because you say that you are the elder, hence I am asking the question to you.
05:24And what kind of elder would it be, who would disallow a question?
05:31Either admit my question and respond to it or don't impose yourself on me.
05:39Simple.
05:42When you will see that you actually have the freedom, the choice to inquire, ask, investigate,
05:51then you will see what really stops you.
05:53It is not the fear of authority.
05:56It is the fear of losing privileges.
06:00Authority does not rule you just because it is authority.
06:04It rules you by tempting you with privileges.
06:11The lover of truth must be ready to let go of privileges.
06:15If these privileges are coming to me on this condition, then it is too heavy a price to pay,
06:25I refuse the deal.
06:26I will not take this deal.
06:30Never be afraid of age or experience or labels or authority, never.
06:38In fact, you should go more daringly and more selectively to them.
06:50Now, you say that you are the knower, therefore, it is all the more important that you answer my questions.
07:13No, because you are declaring that you are the knower, so you say that you are an elder or the teacher.
07:23Therefore, I am coming to you. I want to learn. What else is a teacher supposed to do?
07:32Teach me. And if you can't teach me, why do you call yourself the teacher?
07:41That won't do.
07:41Knowing is your nature.
07:50Therefore, inquiry is always the right action.
07:56If you don't inquire, you are no more a human being.
08:00This auditorium, this setting here is a product of human inquiry, not somebody's authority.
08:05No god commanded, let there be an auditorium.
08:15And an auditorium emerged straight from the earth.
08:19Is that how this auditorium came into being?
08:22Some authority commanded, let there be an auditorium.
08:24This auditorium has been founded on the basis of centuries of human exploration, inquiry, experiments.
08:39Think of the things here. They might appear familiar to you now, but they take a long time coming.
08:45Think of these instruments, these equipments. Think of the chairs, the architecture.
08:52There is no pillar here. How is this thing roof hanging on our head, run away, it will fall.
09:01How did all this happen?
09:05Because somebody said, follow me.
09:09See, they are already kicking the pick. Okay, fine, I will pose.
09:13Follow me.
09:16Is this how great things happen?
09:18Somebody stands like God Almighty and says, I command.
09:24Is this how things happen? No.
09:27A lot of people, a long-off young inquirers like you, they sit down, they work in the labs.
09:35There are certain theses and then
09:39sometimes they are accepted, sometimes they are rejected.
09:42Theories come, theories come, theories go.
09:45From there, you look at this video camera.
09:48It's a product of human ingenuity.
09:52It is not a product of rituals or beliefs.
09:57Horoscopes don't give birth to this video camera, do they?
10:00It is not a product of human ingenuity.
10:06And we should be grateful.
10:09Even the astrologers are using
10:13latest technology
10:17without being grateful at all.
10:18latest technology that astrology didn't give birth to.
10:31And yet, astrology is
10:34exploiting the technology
10:37for its own furtherance.
10:38I can say that because I am right now standing in a temple of learning, right?
10:47And it has been extremely conclusively
10:51proved, demonstrated
10:54that astrology is not a science at all.
10:59It's a conjecture, it's a belief system.
11:03Belief system with no material basis at all.
11:08And of course,
11:15this is a belief system.
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