Understanding Science of reincarnation || Acharya Prashant (2024)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Namaste Acharyaji. So my question is around this rebirth and reincarnation and around

00:15this science of reincarnation. I have heard about this through my colleague and he was

00:24talking about this the University of Virginia and they have been they have been doing research on

00:34this science of reincarnation. So they have they have found a baby who can remember the past life

00:44memories. So can you throw some lights on those? Can you throw some light on this University of

00:53Virginia first thing? Where is the research paper? Where is the proof? I can say no University of

01:01Virginia has never done any such research and no such baby ever existed. How will you refute my claim?

01:10Facts are to be greatly respected.

01:13Rumours are not to be treated as facts. Anybody can create anything from imagination and float it around.

01:26That is not to be quoted as a fact. If it's a university, then the research paper would most

01:34probably be public. Had it not been public, the news won't have reached you.

01:38Do we even understand the implications? Was such a paper to be published ever?

01:51Please understand what it would do to the entire field of identity.

01:57It would have great consequences on every sphere of human activity. Everything would be upturned.

02:06Sir, nothing like this has ever been proven.

02:15And it conversely tells about the composition and intentions of those who believe in such things.

02:26They would very liberally appropriate the name of any high-ranking scientific institution

02:33just to prove that reincarnation in the lowest sense possible does happen.

02:41What does that tell about their own composition? That these people are liars.

02:48Had I had any substance in my claim, would I have proceeded to substantiate my claim

02:57with lies, University of Virginia?

03:08There is nothing in it, sir. Nothing.

03:14And also, please remember,

03:16basics of probability. Probability as in mathematics.

03:26If you take a billion monkeys and just give them keypads,

03:38one of them will be able to type something meaningful.

03:41One of them will be able to type something meaningful.

03:46It has been said that if you take enough monkeys and give them pens,

03:52one of them would surely be able to write down all the works of Shakespeare.

03:57That is just probability. You only have to have sufficient number of monkeys and that will happen.

04:05So, if you look at the 800 crore people who are alive and the numbers that have been diseased,

04:17just randomly, just by way of probability,

04:24if you go to all these people who were kids once and ask them to utter something about their previous life,

04:35a few people would end up saying something meaningful.

04:42That does not mean that there is something in it. That is just the law of randomness.

04:54Okay. What's there on this table next to me? Please tell me.

04:59I can't see. Okay, try.

05:09No, I cannot. But if I ask you to just try.

05:13Yes. What would you say?

05:17A wall maybe. Okay. Now, if I give you

05:21infinite number of tries, will you not succeed in giving the correct answer at least once?

05:27Yes. That is called probability.

05:30That is called probability. Given an infinite number of attempts, anything is possible.

05:41Anything is possible. So, if you take all the kids

05:47who are born and ask them, please tell us something about your previous birth,

05:53one or two of them will end up saying something meaningful.

05:57That proves nothing. In fact, that only proves that mathematics is great.

06:07No place of any repute has ever conducted any conclusive research on this reincarnation thing.

06:16In fact, the scientific community, the world over takes it as something of a joke.

06:24It is not even considered a subject fit enough to be taken for a serious study.

06:32Yes, studies have been done. But those studies have amounted to nothing. Nothing came out of them.

06:40Nobody takes this seriously.

06:45You must also reflect on why a lot of people insist on things like personal reincarnation.

06:56You must ask, what stake do they have? Why do they so forcefully insist that yes, if I die,

07:04why do they so forcefully insist that yes, if I die, I will be reborn as somebody else?

07:12What is it in their psyche that impels them

07:18to aggressively believe in the concept of reincarnation? The answer will be very

07:26interesting.

07:30When you are living an unfulfilled life, then the concept of reincarnation comes as a saviour.

07:40However, it is also the same concept that prevents you from bringing richness and meaning and joy

07:55to this one life that you have.

07:59You are told, you know, I have so many lives and the subsequent lives will probably be better.

08:07If you are in turmoil, in bondage currently,

08:13then you are saved from challenging your fears and your bondages with the greatest ferocity.

08:21How? You say, you know, I somehow deserve my sorry state.

08:27I must have done something in my past lives to deserve the pain that I have now.

08:32So, there is no need to fight against my suffering and my bondage because I anyway deserve it.

08:39It is my karmaphal and what annoys me is that both these concepts, which are interrelated,

08:51of course, reincarnation and karma are attributed to the Gita.

08:57Whereas, the Gita very forcefully destroys both these concepts.

09:04But fantastic are the ways of maya.

09:10Yes.

09:13Thank you, Asadji.

09:15Welcome.

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