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This video is taken from the session at Indian Institute of Science on 13 December 2025.

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00:00Some people are born rich, some people are born very poor.
00:03So some people say that it is due to past karmas.
00:07But is that pure luck or what?
00:09I need a few coins.
00:12Coins.
00:14Coins, coins.
00:18No guarantee.
00:20No guarantee.
00:22Choose your favourite one.
00:25Maybe.
00:27Dhamma.
00:28The foundation is getting richer.
00:32This is my way of accepting donations.
00:38Wait, done, done, done, done.
00:45Fine.
00:47It will be a big mess if I now throw all these up.
00:51So we limit it to a thought experiment.
00:54Will you ever know which one of these will show up as head and which one as tail?
01:01That's what, sir.
01:02That's what.
01:04If heads means rich and tails means poor, you will never know.
01:08You will attribute causality to something that is entirely random, like the throw of a dice.
01:15Yes, you are attributing causality to something which is not causal at all.
01:21It is random.
01:23But you say that if...
01:25All yours.
01:29But you say, if somebody was born with a silver spoon, surely it is because of his great deeds in
01:37the past birth.
01:38No, sir, it's random.
01:39No, sir, it's random.

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