"All modern science is already in our scriptures!" || Acharya Prashant, at BITS Goa (2023)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00So, you might have come across a lot of these Qatar Hindu media outlets, right, who say

00:08that everything that science has proven today was already there in the Vedas and all of

00:12the Sanskritic texts and all the ancient texts.

00:15For example, one of the common things that they claim is that the distance between the

00:18earth and sun was already written in Hanuman Chalisa and many other things which have time

00:22and again been disproven and all of these are certainly coming from confirmation bias.

00:26So, but my very big problem with this is that this is actually undervaluing the real contributions

00:33of people like Arya Bhatt, Panini, Pathani Samant and all of these legends who have contributed,

00:39who have made groundbreaking contributions to arts, music, science, philosophy and everything else.

00:44So how do we teach this average Hindu education, nothing else?

00:49You want to be proud of your past, right?

00:53Yes.

00:54That's okay.

00:55For the right reasons.

00:56Yeah, but be proud of the right things and the right people and the right works and the

01:02right reasons obviously.

01:06It's alright to try to look at the past and search for reason and meaning and dignity and

01:15kindness there.

01:22It's okay.

01:23You want to love something that's worth loving, which is very much okay.

01:26What if you, you know, you have your friend and he is let's say 5'6 and you go to a couple

01:42of strangers and you introduce your friend as 6'2.

01:48what have you communicated to your friend?

01:50You are ashamed of his height.

01:54Is that not what you are communicating?

01:57Is that not what you are communicating?

01:59Please tell me.

02:01Huh?

02:02Huh?

02:03See.

02:04Your wife earns, let's say, 30k a month.

02:08She's just a beginner, let's say. 30k a month.

02:15You introduce her to your friends, saying she earns a lakh rupees a month.

02:21What does that mean?

02:25You are not quite proud of her.

02:29When you are needlessly and foolishly exaggerating things from your past,

02:37that simply means that you are ashamed of your past.

02:41And that is even more foolish because there is genuine stuff in your past

02:46that you can reasonably, genuinely, sincerely be proud of.

02:57But you are not proud of those things because you don't know of those things.

03:00That's why I said education.

03:02He talked of Arebhat, he talked of Panani.

03:09People don't know of them.

03:11People don't know of, they haven't heard of Sushrut.

03:17So they start saying, well you know, all the secrets,

03:22the entire cosmology is contained in the Vedas.

03:27Now, interestingly, these are people who do not,

03:31who not only do not know Sushrut and Arebhat,

03:36they also do not know the Vedas.

03:41All they know is their hollow, vain pride.

03:44This is an insult not only to the great scientists and mathematicians that we have had.

03:58This is also an insult to the Vedas.

04:01If I say certain things are there in the Vedic literature which are not there at all,

04:06am I respecting the Vedic literature?

04:08You are ashamed of it.

04:11The thing is, you need not be ashamed of it.

04:13The beauty, the glory of Vedas,

04:16lies not in the fact that they contain all the secrets of the material universe.

04:21Their glory lies in Vedanta.

04:25And the Vedas are de facto immortal

04:28because what Vedanta is talking of is stuff

04:31that is applicable to all times, all people, all ages.

04:34The stuff that I have spoken to you of over the last two hours

04:41is nothing but Vedanta.

04:43So, Vedanta is very much relevant even today

04:47and it will continue to be relevant 500 years from today,

04:501000 years from today.

04:52I am speaking to a very young audience

04:55and I am speaking to an elite audience.

04:57And Vedanta is very meaningful to you

04:59and that's what should make you proud of the Vedas.

05:05Instead of that you are saying, you know,

05:08Vedas contain secrets about nuclear energy.

05:14Well, there is nothing in them about nuclear energy.

05:18The thing is, you have never touched the Ved.

05:21And why have you not read the Vedas?

05:23The reason is simple.

05:24When you are in class 10th,

05:27you barely managed to clear your boards.

05:30I am speaking to the people who spread this kind of nonsense.

05:36They are all half-educated, semi-literate people.

05:43They could barely clear their boards. Why?

05:45Because they could not even read their basic textbooks.

05:51Now, these are the same people.

05:53And the Rig Veda has 10,000 verses.

05:55Actually 10,000 verses, Rig Veda.

05:57This fellow could not read a 100-page textbook in class 10th.

06:02Do you think he is going to really read the Rig Veda?

06:05No, he will not read the Rig Veda.

06:06But he is interested in blabbering, in propagating all kinds of nonsense.

06:17Just to establish that his community is great and superior to all other communities.

06:24So he will say, you know, this is written in the Veda.

06:26You ask him.

06:27Which mandal? Which verse?

06:31Tell me the prakarana, the adhyaya.

06:33Tell me, please.

06:34Coming from the Sangeeta?

06:35Coming from Aranyak?

06:37Where is this coming from?

06:39Then, then, no, no, no, no, no.

06:41There is a lot in India that is worthy of not just your pride, but it actually deserves your worship.

07:06Nonsense is not that.

07:14Truth is to be worshipped.

07:16Nonsense is to be discarded.

07:19Just as I say, there are great things in your past.

07:22Equally, there is a lot in your past that deserves to be discarded.

07:29What must be discarded has to be discarded.

07:31What must be respected?

07:36Must be respected.

07:38Keep a clear distinction between the two.

07:43Simple.

07:45And do not make it a rule for yourself.

07:49To not say anything without having researched reasonably into it.

07:57Don't accept anything as factual if you have not done your own research.

08:06And you will be surprised.

08:09A lot of things that thousands of people, millions of people believe in.

08:14Are actually just hot air.

08:20Fluff.

08:21There is nothing in that.

08:23This is the information age.

08:26Right?

08:28Basic kind of research is very easy.

08:31Do that.

08:32It is.

08:34The.

08:35The.

08:37The.

08:38One.

08:39Inred.

08:43No.

08:45Do.

08:46No!

08:47Meaning.

08:48Gabriel.

08:49Ele votes in English,

08:50McGregory.

08:51No!

08:53The search bar.

08:55Illinois,innon is 5k and 4570.

08:56To be on the basis of fraud,

08:59the map has been 2014 and that this year of its astronomical map.

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