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00:00All of us are divided by the society into different faiths, different religions.
00:04Was there actually a God who came to earth and different people interpreted his story in different ways
00:09and that's how different religions branched out.
00:12You kept evolving, evolving over millions of years and then a few thousand years back,
00:18you slowly started thinking.
00:21So when you start thinking, then you start wondering, where have I come from?
00:25What has happened?
00:26I say that I have a God.
00:28He says that he has some other God.
00:30He does not believe in my God.
00:31Beliefs can't talk to each other.
00:33You will say the world was created on a Sunday.
00:34He will say not on a Monday.
00:35No, no, he will say Tuesday, he will say Wednesday.
00:37Now talk.
00:38How will you reconcile this?
00:39You can only fight.
00:40I myself greet some of my friends randomly with As-Salaam-Alaikum.
00:44But when I do that, they don't like it.
00:46We use these words so frequently and equally casually every day.
00:52Don't we?
00:52Do we know their meaning?
00:54So what should we believe in?
00:55Why do you need to believe?
00:56You look at the question.
00:58What should I believe in?
00:59Well, let's do.
01:05Good evening, sir.
01:06My name is Pranjal Parish Dakar.
01:08I also am a first-year student here at Bits Goa.
01:10So right now, all of us are divided by the society into different faiths, different religions, be it Hinduism, be it Sanat, Islam, Christianity or any other.
01:22And what I have heard from all the laws of these cultures is that there are a few things common in all these cultural laws.
01:32Muslims, like Muslims, after praying, they say Ameen, the Christians say Ameen.
01:38So they are the same words, just different dialects.
01:41Also, the Ram Sethu, as we call it because we have heard Ramayana, all of us.
01:49The Christians refer to it as Adam's bridge.
01:53They say that when Adam came to earth, he walked through this bridge.
01:57So I wanted to ask if all these laws are actual things that happened.
02:05And was there actually a God who came to earth and different people interpreted his story in different ways?
02:12And that's how different religions branched out.
02:15Or are these actually just concepts created by us humans, as you were explaining right now, in order to discipline other humans, in order to have a definite method of living?
02:28What do you gather from what I have said so far?
02:31What do you think of it?
02:32That's the thing.
02:33Created by humans.
02:35You see, keep everything aside.
02:38Here you are on this planet.
02:41Right?
02:43And all your concepts arise from your condition.
02:46You are the one who came first.
02:49Right?
02:50You kept evolving, evolving over millions of years.
02:55And then,
02:57a few thousand years back,
03:01you developed what can be called
03:04as an elevated consciousness,
03:08a thinking consciousness,
03:10just around 50 to 80,000 years back.
03:15You slowly started thinking.
03:19Before that,
03:20before that,
03:21your inner infrastructure,
03:22the brain,
03:24was not evolved enough.
03:27You maybe could emote.
03:29You could have instincts.
03:32You could react,
03:34like animals do.
03:36But you are not,
03:37a really sentient creature.
03:39So,
03:40with thought comes the capacity to appreciate one's condition.
03:56And to explore linkages.
04:02To search for causality.
04:06That's the starting point.
04:07Nothing else is the starting point.
04:12Do you get this?
04:13Suppose you are still a beast.
04:23Right?
04:23A beast.
04:25We went back a million years.
04:27You are still a beast.
04:28Would you be asking all these questions?
04:29If those,
04:33these questions don't exist,
04:35does the content of these questions exist?
04:41And whatever you are asking,
04:43faiths,
04:44this,
04:44that,
04:44that's the content of this question.
04:47You go back a million years,
04:49even the questionnaire does not exist.
04:51From where will the content of this question come?
04:56So,
04:56when you start thinking,
04:58then you start wondering.
04:59Where have I come from?
05:01What has happened?
05:02And you are not yet well equipped,
05:05to come to,
05:06a truthful answer.
05:07So,
05:07what do you do then?
05:09You speculate.
05:11You hypothesize.
05:13Bluntly put,
05:14you simply imagine.
05:17What else can you do?
05:19Because these are troublesome questions.
05:21It's very difficult,
05:22to live with these,
05:25unanswered.
05:27You need some kind of an answer.
05:29So you come up with an answer.
05:31Which is fine.
05:32Because,
05:33why am I saying it's fine?
05:34Because I appreciate,
05:35that there is at least a question.
05:41Animals don't even question.
05:42At least you questioned,
05:43where did we come from?
05:44At least you started having a concept of something beyond ordinary humanity and you called it divinity.
05:53And that's wonderful.
05:55There is some progress.
05:58Now let's keep progressing.
05:59Now let's not stop at the answers at the first level.
06:04Let's keep exploring.
06:09So when different people come up with different kind of answers,
06:12I say that I have a God.
06:14He says that he has some other God.
06:16He does not believe in my God.
06:18So he says that because you have a different God, I will fight you.
06:21There are riots happening within our country,
06:24between two different countries.
06:26Because they came up with different answers.
06:28They believe in different concepts of divinity.
06:31See, beliefs cannot talk to each other.
06:33I believe I have said something.
06:45What have you understood?
06:48Whatever I have said,
06:49that makes sense only to me.
06:55It's a personal inner castle I have built.
06:58Now beliefs can't talk to...
07:00I believe
07:01that this is black.
07:06That's my personal system.
07:09Don't you dare
07:10question it.
07:14And you say,
07:15no, no, this is yellow.
07:16Now how can we talk to each other?
07:19There has to be,
07:20first of all,
07:21for a conversation,
07:22a mutual
07:23commitment towards the facts.
07:26No facts,
07:28not beliefs.
07:30Otherwise,
07:30you will have your own belief.
07:31He will have his belief.
07:32He will have his belief.
07:33And there can be no conversation.
07:35Beliefs can't talk to each other.
07:36You will say,
07:37the world was created on a Sunday.
07:38He will say,
07:39not on a Monday.
07:39No, no.
07:40He will say Tuesday.
07:40He will say Wednesday.
07:41Now talk.
07:43How will you reconcile this?
07:44You can only fight.
07:47He will say,
07:47the world was created in five days.
07:51He will say,
07:51no,
07:52it took four years.
07:54He will say,
07:55mota maka po opa to to to ko.
07:59He will say,
08:00ki kata kaya na.
08:00Not talk.
08:03First of all,
08:04there has to be,
08:06a common understanding,
08:09and a common value system.
08:11We will adhere to the facts.
08:15And we will respect,
08:17if we question each other.
08:18Right?
08:23Nothing is beyond inquiry.
08:27Unless that agreement is there,
08:29you cannot have conversation,
08:31and that's the problem with this world.
08:35You come to this table,
08:37you put your beliefs here,
08:39he puts his beliefs here,
08:40and they are mutually incompatible.
08:44There can only be,
08:46war now.
08:49Now you will say,
08:50the war is for this reason,
08:51or that reason.
08:52But the fact remains,
08:53that there will be war.
08:56Be it in India,
08:56Pakistan war,
08:57or what's happening,
08:59in the Middle East.
09:01A big underlying reason,
09:04is belief.
09:07Belief.
09:08Your beliefs,
09:09do not tally with mine.
09:11And I hold my beliefs,
09:13as sacred,
09:13so I will kill you.
09:14Full stop.
09:17And he holds his beliefs,
09:19as sacred.
09:19In other matters,
09:23maybe,
09:24we can tolerate,
09:24each other's beliefs.
09:27Who's your,
09:28favorite,
09:30soccer player?
09:31Oh fine,
09:32fine,
09:32Messi.
09:33Who's your,
09:34favorite,
09:34you'll say,
09:35no,
09:35my all time favorite,
09:36is Pele.
09:37Okay,
09:37current one,
09:38or Ronaldo.
09:39Fine,
09:39chalega.
09:40So here,
09:42may be some kind,
09:42of reconciliation is possible.
09:44But when it comes to,
09:45your conception,
09:46of the highest.
09:48If your beliefs,
09:49don't match with each other,
09:50obviously you will,
09:52fight.
09:54And there can be,
09:55a nuclear war as well.
09:56You understand?
10:03He says,
10:04his God is of one nature,
10:06he says,
10:07no,
10:07no,
10:07no.
10:08What you are talking of,
10:09as God is not God,
10:10my God is of this kind.
10:11Now there will be a war.
10:16Have you seen?
10:18When it comes to facts,
10:20the explorers,
10:23collaborate with each other.
10:26Huh?
10:28You,
10:29in your institution,
10:30for example,
10:32somebody is researching,
10:34on something in biotechnology.
10:37It's quite likely,
10:38that fellow might be collaborating,
10:41with,
10:41a lab doing similar work,
10:45in France.
10:46It's possible.
10:48When it comes to facts,
10:51there is collaboration.
10:54But when it comes to beliefs,
10:55there can only be destruction.
10:58Scientists collaborate with each other.
11:02They pick up each other's work,
11:03and review it.
11:07Don't they?
11:09Because,
11:11what one scientist has found out,
11:13is acceptable to the other one,
11:18provided it is verifiable,
11:20and falsifiable.
11:22So,
11:22they collaborate.
11:24But,
11:24when it comes to,
11:25what you call as,
11:26faiths,
11:27they will fight with each other,
11:29because,
11:29because,
11:30there is no faith there.
11:32There is just imagination.
11:33There is just dream.
11:34He had a dream,
11:35he had a dream,
11:36he had a dream,
11:36and their dreams,
11:37can't agree with each other,
11:39because,
11:39this is just,
11:40personal fluff.
11:42There is no agreement possible.
11:45So,
11:45there will be war.
11:48And,
11:49this kind of,
11:50personal,
11:51dream stuff,
11:52has been responsible,
11:53for so much of the misery,
11:54of this world.
11:55No?
11:56Whether,
11:57whether it is about,
11:58about religion,
11:59or culture,
12:00or anything else.
12:01You consider,
12:01one thing as good,
12:02the other one,
12:03does not consider as good,
12:04the two of you will fight.
12:09Even economics.
12:11If you look at the cold war,
12:13the US and USSR,
12:14were not fighting,
12:15really over religion.
12:18They were fighting,
12:19over two economic systems.
12:21But,
12:21even in,
12:22on those two systems,
12:24nothing was clearly,
12:25yet proven.
12:29Nothing was clearly,
12:30yet proven.
12:30there was a lot of space,
12:31for belief.
12:36So,
12:37for example,
12:37the Soviet scientists,
12:39they resisted it for long,
12:42when genetic research,
12:44started revealing,
12:46that even within species,
12:48there are variations,
12:49in abilities,
12:51and capacities.
12:53They said,
12:54this hits,
12:55at the very core,
12:56of communist belief.
12:59We cannot accept it.
13:00that proves that,
13:02what they were holding,
13:04very close to themselves,
13:06was the belief system.
13:08And hence,
13:09you had the cold war.
13:11Wherever,
13:12instead of facts,
13:14and instead of,
13:14a shared,
13:16commitment,
13:17towards the truth,
13:18you will have an insistence,
13:22you will have an insistence,
13:23on some personal belief,
13:24there will be conflict.
13:25So,
13:30there was this quote,
13:30in your book,
13:31that I deeply resonated with.
13:33It says,
13:33the deepest inquiry,
13:35begins as a tense,
13:36ruthless questioning,
13:37demanding answers,
13:38and,
13:39in a,
13:40ends in a humble surrender,
13:42knowing,
13:42beyond answers.
13:43Beyond.
13:44So,
13:45what I,
13:46understood from this,
13:47is that,
13:47as humans have,
13:50quite misinterpreted,
13:51what,
13:52we call as,
13:53religion of faith.
13:55I,
13:56myself,
13:56greet,
13:57some of my friends,
13:58randomly with,
13:58assalamualaikum.
14:00Now,
14:00assalamualaikum,
14:00is a Muslim greeting.
14:02It,
14:02is actually an Arabic word,
14:04which means,
14:05stay in peace.
14:06But,
14:06when I do that,
14:08they don't like it.
14:09See,
14:17they,
14:18will not like it,
14:19because,
14:20they have your own,
14:21they have their own,
14:22religious compulsions,
14:25or their own,
14:27what should I say,
14:31insistences.
14:36But,
14:36my question to you is,
14:37do you know what peace means?
14:39Oh,
14:41those who,
14:42those who dislike it,
14:43just because,
14:44probably it has an Arabic sound to it.
14:47Fine,
14:47let's keep them aside.
14:50But,
14:50you are the one,
14:51initiating the conversation.
14:55Now,
14:55you know what peace is.
15:00We use these words,
15:04so frequently,
15:05every day.
15:06Don't we?
15:08Very frequently,
15:09and equally casually,
15:10love,
15:13peace,
15:16welfare,
15:19friendship,
15:21life,
15:22livelihood,
15:25career,
15:26education.
15:28Do we know their meaning?
15:32Do we?
15:33I love you.
15:36What exactly has been said?
15:37Again,
15:38what do we know?
15:39What do we know?
15:42You have your personal concept of what you have said.
15:45Nothing absolute about it.
15:47You have a feeling,
15:48a vague,
15:50woolly feeling,
15:51and that you are expressing as,
15:53do you know exactly what you mean?
16:01I want to be happy.
16:02Now,
16:02what is this happiness?
16:06Do we know?
16:07Are you getting it?
16:13Any of these words,
16:16that we hold,
16:19very central to life,
16:21to our being,
16:22do we know their real meaning?
16:26I belong to you.
16:27You belong to me.
16:28You are mine.
16:35Let's get married.
16:38I am well settled now.
16:42Do you know what it means?
16:43Settlement and such words.
16:48But we are familiar with them.
16:50And that familiarity,
16:57breeds,
17:00a confidence,
17:02of knowledgeability.
17:06Just because you encounter a sound,
17:08so many times every day,
17:10you start assuming,
17:12you know what it means.
17:13Do you really know?
17:16They don't know what they are resisting,
17:18when you say,
17:19Asalaam wa lai wa,
17:19they don't know what they are resisting.
17:22But,
17:22they are not here,
17:23right?
17:26Let them meet their fate.
17:29My question to you is,
17:30when you greet someone,
17:32with what you call,
17:34as a religious addressal,
17:37do you know what you are saying?
17:38Exactly.
17:39That is not a religious addressal.
17:40People just associate that.
17:42It may be religious,
17:43may not be,
17:43but you uttered it.
17:45It came out of your mouth.
17:46Do you know what you just uttered?
17:49Do you know what you just said?
17:59To know what you are saying,
18:02that is real religiousness.
18:04To really know whatever you are saying.
18:09I think different people believe in their own faith,
18:14because that gives them hope.
18:15A hope that at the end,
18:18they would end up where they have wanted always to be.
18:21They will end up somewhere better off than they are now.
18:25Do they know where they are now?
18:30How can hope be a substitute
18:33for knowing?
18:37When you want to clear an exam,
18:40first of all,
18:41you look at the syllabus
18:42and you look at your own preparation.
18:44Are you just sit hoping?
18:50Of what worth is such hope?
18:53You know neither the syllabus,
18:55nor the extent of your preparation.
18:57And you sit hoping for salvation.
19:00Where will that take you?
19:04Elders bless you.
19:05That too you can say is not religious but cultural.
19:12They say may you be happy,
19:14may you live long.
19:17Why?
19:18What are you saying?
19:23Why?
19:28Do we know what we are saying?
19:30Or are we
19:31performing,
19:33just performing,
19:35like an automaton?
19:43Performance is something
19:44that you can get even from a machine,
19:47an unconscious machine, right?
19:50So you breathe,
19:51why should that not be called a performance?
19:53You speak,
19:54how is that not just performance?
19:57Even a machine
19:57can be programmed
19:59to say
20:00something like this.
20:03My car greets me
20:05when I open the door.
20:08And my car
20:09bids me
20:11goodbye
20:12when I close the door.
20:21You too can do that.
20:23Welcome,
20:24you have arrived.
20:24Now you are going.
20:30May you be taken care of
20:32and such things.
20:34So,
20:34according to you,
20:36we should discard this
20:37concept of divinity
20:39beyond
20:40what?
20:42How can you discard
20:43something you know nothing of?
20:44that's equally
20:49unintelligent
20:52as accepting something
20:53you know nothing of.
20:56Something is kept here
20:57and you know nothing of it.
20:58Will you throw it away?
20:58So,
21:02that's a problem
21:03with atheism.
21:06They are discarding something
21:07they know nothing of.
21:11So,
21:11if we are calling
21:12atheists
21:13as ignorant people,
21:15atheists
21:16are probably
21:17equally ignorant.
21:18So,
21:18what should we believe in?
21:19Why do you need to believe?
21:20What is
21:23this weakness,
21:24this
21:25helplessness
21:26coming from
21:27a young man
21:28who says
21:29I need
21:29crutches of belief.
21:32You are in this institute
21:33to know
21:34or to believe.
21:37Any kind of education,
21:39any kind of
21:40man building,
21:42does it have to do
21:44with knowing
21:44or believing?
21:45If you are to believe,
21:47why do you need
21:47to be here?
21:48Sit at home
21:49and believe in it
21:50something?
21:51That's the way
21:52a car functions.
21:54A great buffalo
21:55is there
21:56under the bonnet.
22:00Right?
22:01And you pull
22:02the tail
22:02of the buffalo
22:03and the buffalo
22:05powers the car.
22:06Believe in that.
22:08Why do you need
22:08to enter
22:09the mechanical
22:09engineering department?
22:14You look at
22:15the question
22:15what
22:16should I believe in?
22:18Well,
22:18nothing.
22:20you have
22:21your capacity
22:22to see,
22:23ask,
22:24question
22:24and you have
22:25your honesty
22:26to admit
22:26that you don't
22:27yet know.
22:28Fine.
22:30I don't yet know
22:31but I'll keep
22:33asking.
22:33I'll keep
22:34trying.
22:35Isn't that
22:35sufficient?
22:37Isn't that
22:38sufficient?
22:40Or do you
22:40need to imagine
22:41that you have
22:41arrived when
22:42you have still
22:43not?
22:43I think we've
22:48established
22:49just I'll take
22:50a second.
22:52Those who
22:53need to leave
22:54my request is
22:56please leave
22:57right now
22:58not in the
22:58middle of a
22:59conversation
23:00and those
23:01who intend
23:01staying
23:02if they may
23:03occupy the
23:04front seats
23:05that would be
23:05nice.
23:06Sir,
23:11you have
23:11been
23:11mentioning the
23:13word belief
23:13again and
23:14again.
23:14Can you
23:14please
23:14differentiate
23:15the meaning
23:16of knowing
23:17and believing
23:17because on
23:18its base
23:19isn't knowing
23:19something also
23:20are we
23:21believing it
23:21because of
23:22all the
23:23evidence of
23:23what we can
23:24observe?
23:24Isn't that
23:25also belief?
23:25Yeah,
23:26but in
23:27belief there
23:27is no
23:27evidence.
23:29Knowing,
23:30yes,
23:30there is
23:30evidence
23:31that might
23:33be tentative
23:34then you
23:35call it a
23:35theory.
23:37Right?
23:38It is
23:38tentative.
23:40Subject to
23:41falsification,
23:42subject to
23:43future developments
23:44but belief
23:45says this
23:46is the final
23:47truth and
23:48without any
23:48evidence.
23:51Belief
23:52says this
23:52is the final
23:53truth and
23:53without any
23:54evidence.
23:54there is a
23:55clear distinction
23:56is there
23:56not?
24:00When it
24:01comes to
24:01exploration,
24:02when it
24:03comes to
24:04honest inquiry
24:04you at
24:06least try
24:07to have
24:08it verifiable
24:09when it
24:11comes to
24:11beliefs.
24:13Even an
24:14attempt at
24:15verification
24:15is blasphemy.
24:18Is it
24:18not?
24:19You go
24:20and ask
24:21some
24:21religious
24:22authority
24:22well here
24:24is the
24:24belief
24:25that you
24:25propagate.
24:26May I
24:27question it?
24:30And he
24:30will say
24:30where is
24:31my gun?
24:34There is a
24:35clear distinction
24:35there.
24:36Hi,
24:44hi everyone.
24:44So I'm
24:45Madhavan.
24:46I'm from
24:46US.
24:47I live in
24:47Charlotte.
24:48So I've
24:49been listening
24:49to Acharya
24:51Jee from
24:51probably last
24:53two years.
24:53Intensely on
24:54YouTube I
24:54started two
24:55and a half
24:56years ago.
24:57I joined
24:58Gita
24:58sessions one
24:59year ago.
25:00So I went
25:01through an
25:01intense
25:02seeking phase
25:03like from
25:04last three
25:04years I
25:05would say
25:05looking into
25:07different
25:07directions.
25:08Couldn't
25:08find like
25:09what I
25:09really wanted
25:10but I
25:11know that
25:11there was
25:11Acharya Jeej
25:12about the
25:13becha
25:13ni wo
25:14to
25:14taha.
25:15So I
25:15was seeking
25:15multiple
25:16things.
25:17So some
25:17things I
25:17tried out
25:18to experiment
25:18it but
25:19finally what
25:19I understood
25:20is that all
25:21the other
25:21spiritual
25:22practices which
25:23we generally
25:23talk about
25:24you know like
25:24generally that
25:25is framed
25:25about they
25:26are very
25:26much
25:26misinterpreted
25:28as Acharya
25:28Ji says
25:29Acharya Ji's
25:29teachings have
25:30really helped
25:31us and
25:32to overcome
25:34and not
25:35fall in
25:35the trap
25:37right.
25:37So I
25:37started reading
25:38these books
25:39too and
25:40other videos.
25:41So this
25:42is where
25:42books really
25:43help guys.
25:44I mean
25:45Acharya Ji
25:46has books
25:47on topics
25:47like ego
25:48maya
25:49right and
25:50then when we
25:51go through
25:51these books
25:52right it
25:52gives a
25:53better
25:53knowledge
25:55about these
25:56things and
25:57actually we
25:57don't fall
25:58into you
25:59know like
25:59some
25:59delusional
26:00traps or
26:00tricks when
26:02people take
26:03up big
26:04words and
26:04you know
26:05make
26:07discussions
26:07on that.
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