00:00I compared India's obsession with astrology to the western advancements in astronomy.
00:08Somebody else controls my fate, so please look at my horoscope.
00:11Because my life is controlled by somebody else.
00:14That's what dictates us.
00:16Somebody else is the Lord.
00:17And he will decide how I will live and what I will eat and how I will vote and how
00:22I will marry and where I will settle.
00:24The West was questioning the skies when we were praying to the skies.
00:29And it was precisely because of their astronomical advancements that they could first of all come to India.
00:35Remember, there was no great source of energy then except the winds.
00:40Starting from there, the tiny British Isles.
00:43They first would come to the Cape of Good Hope using just the winds, the trade winds.
00:48And imagine how they would be navigating.
00:50There was no GPS.
00:51So all astronomy was there to measure longitude accurately.
00:55And what were we doing then?
00:57Praying to the skies.
00:58Please, please, please tell me whether the girl is Mongolic.
01:02Which tree to worship next to get more wealth?
01:04Which Babaji to go to to get one more son?
01:07And they were manufacturing, researching, observing, documenting.
01:12India was not really defeated by the Brits.
01:14It was defeated by Greenwich, GMT.
01:16That's where the research lab was, the Royal Observatory at Greenwich.
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