00:00Has anyone here come across Reflective?
00:02I'm fascinated by it.
00:04This company is an AI-driven company
00:06which effectively creates digital versions of your dead relatives.
00:11It will train the models up on your dead relatives.
00:13This is going to be the next big thing
00:14because now I'm in the business of grief
00:16and grief is never-ending.
00:17It's a very interesting concept.
00:19We see, isn't Krishna still alive in the form of the Bhagavad Gita?
00:23So if Granny can come up on the screen
00:26and help me learn how to be more present here right now
00:31in this world that I live in,
00:33then it's fine.
00:34It's fine.
00:35No issues with that.
00:36Even Granny on the screen is an object to the ego
00:39like any other objects.
00:40Like right now, this mic is an object to me,
00:42this body is an object to me,
00:43the persons here, the friends here,
00:46they are all objects.
00:47Similarly, you can have object on the screen,
00:49no problem with that.
00:50The problem is when Granny appears on the screen
00:53and you use her to embark through the past
00:57as an escape from the present.
00:59Now, then you have a problem.
01:00Otherwise, no object by itself, in itself, is good or bad.
01:05Granny on the screen is every bit as much an object
01:10as Granny in flesh and blood.
01:13No distinction there really.
01:14The distinction lies in what the ego chooses to do
01:18with that image on the screen.
01:21That's where the distinction is.
01:22The distinction lies in what you choose to do with Bhagavad Gita.
01:26Now, Sri Krishna, similarly, can be used in two ways.
01:29One, oh, we have had such a great avatar in the past.
01:34So, we are still great.
01:36And here, you are using the greatness of the past
01:39to escape, probably, the challenges of the present.
01:45Right?
01:45And the other way is, I am looking at Gita not to celebrate the past,
01:50but to empower the present.
01:53Right?
01:54And that's what we do in our Gita Samagam.
01:56So, in our sessions, for example, in the Gita sessions,
01:59we will be talking of the challenges of today.
02:01We are talking of AI.
02:03We are talking of the climate crisis.
02:04We are talking of deforestation.
02:06We are talking of all the wars.
02:08We are talking of political crisis.
02:10We are talking of social tensions.
02:12Whatever addresses us today, whatever faces us today,
02:15we are using the Gita as a great guide
02:18to help us look in the mirror today.
02:21It should not be a map into the past.
02:24So, fine.
02:25The name of the company.
02:26If they are bringing in Granny, that's fine.
02:29But what is the user of that application or that service
02:33going to do with Granny?
02:34That's the moot question.
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