The Great Hindu Pride | Ashwin Hariharan | RenaiesSENSE’24 | Bengaluru 

To the viewers: If you're strongly attached to your faith, this video might challenge your beliefs. From what I've observed, these sentiments are triggered by a lack of attention or misunderstanding of the nuances being made. So before hastily rushing to the comment section to raise issues that were never claimed in the first place, please read this first: 1. To reiterate, the topic is "Do Hindu epics and mythological tales have a blueprint for advanced scientific knowledge and technology such as aircraft/nuclear weapons". The topic is not "Are Hindu epics entirely wrong/false etc". It is not about dismissing or discouraging people to read them. For believers thinking that I am dismissing the entire culture - you may also want to rewatch the points I discuss at 38:28 where I highlight the good parts. I even included a Bhagawad Gita quote in the end as I felt that it was something valuable and relevant even today. 2. Please note that I have never said there is no science in ancient India at all. Ancient Indian mathematicians and scientists were at the forefront of their fields for those times. However, it is not in Ramayana that you will find their major contributions. Books like Vedas and Mahabharata contain devotional hymns, literature, mythology and all that - not science. Also, the golden age of Indian science came much after the Vedic times. 3. My scorn isn't directed at ancient Indian scientists, but towards unfounded beliefs held by TODAY's individuals, like many trolls here claiming that you can find the science of AI, quantum computing also in those texts. If you're not one of those then good for you. But many Hindus including people in positions of power and influence take the narratives in these texts as literal historical facts, influence millions with such theories, and try to alter our education curriculum. 4. Please be aware that similar claims exist in other religions as well. If you look into it, you'll find passionate discussions about things like Black Holes/quantum physics being mentioned in the literature of other religious texts also. The claim that we lost knowledge of modern technology like aircraft and nuclear weapons because invaders / Mughals destroyed everything is one of the laziest and most ignorant claims ever made. 5. Our country has no shortage of Sanskrit scholars, religious leaders and priests. These folks should all come together, gather and read all the epics, stories and scriptures that they can get hold of, and produce something isn't known to mainstream science, along with practical applications - to help us progress. Unfortunately, we only see such folks wait until scientists around the world do all the hard work - then start yelling from the rooftops that this was already in Sanskrit and that these scientists stole our knowledge. Basically they want to believe that centuries of Indians had to be completely incompetent that they could not understand all the science written in the Vedas but Westerners with zero grasp of Sanskrit figured it all out. 6. Spirituality/morality is wholly different from any organized religion, or any other belief system. Spirituality must be distinguishable from belief systems because people of every faith and of no faith have had spiritual experiences. But that's not the topic of this video. The solution is to drive Indian science forward by embracing the knowledge of today, not to bury ourselves in ancient books hoping that science will magically fall out. Science is a process, not a collection of sentences written in some book. For example, we have plenty of real scientific work done by scientists like Satyendra Nath Bose, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, with an entire class of subatomic particles named after him. Appreciation of such genuine accomplishments is good. Taking pride in exaggerated claims is wrong.

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Excellent presentation. Congratulations Ashwin Hariharan

❤❤🎉 nice presentation.

Simple explanation for the people peddling pseudoscience

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❤️❤️ good language use🎉

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I really like this presentation. Much appreciated.

Been looking for a video like this , great work

Nice presentation..

I also agree that ancient texts were mere science fictions. But terming a flying vehicle "Pushpaka" meaning flower-like indicating how some flowers rotate while landing safely to the ground gives amazing similarities with the modern day helicopters. Yeah they r just fantasies, but also conceiving possibilities.

We must discuss the Indian philosophy rather than Indian mythology

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23:26 Decimal fractions can be seen in Brahmasphutasiddhantha by Brahmagupta, & In Aryabhatiya and Bhaskara I's commentary on the same gives proper evidences of using Decimal fraction clear as water. Sometimes claims can't be always right.

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27:30 Even in the Ramayana, Pushpak Vimana was owned by Kubera. Kubera who was the Lord of Lanka was so wealthy that he distributed all his earnings at the end of every respective year by travelling in his Pushpak vimana. Ravana snatched it from him as he didn’t like this idea of wealth distribution. However, there were no plenty of vimaanas for the knowledge to be shared because it was very costly to make one, and only the wealthiest guy could have invested in it. It is like asking why everyone is unable to fly to space in a rocket now? Or why Zambia is not able to create its own rocket to space 😂😂😂

Used to be such person 7-8 yrs back..Still, a proud hindu❤..Cos it makes us introspect, debate, analyse, and then come to conclusion..had been through it all...studied religious principles of different communities , sociology, philosophical aspect..and believe sanatan dharma as one of the best thing happened, because it gives space to all, as this boy said, creative liberty.

Know that God dwells in you as you. End of story.

Ancient humans had enough or more intelligence as we have today. Hindus believe that a scientist is a poet and a poet is a scientist. That means every scientist develops a lot of imaginative capabilities. Hindu puranas were part of ‘Chinese rumour’. Hence many may seem unreliable. If one needs to see mention about time dilation search for Balarama’s father in law, king raivata story. At some point in history, we have to presume that Vedas were the encodified knowledge book, which the educated humans were to hold them sacred and pass on to generations. But unfortunately, some link was broken as if the cryptography key was missing, which therefore resulted in the encrypted/encoded data being transferred over generations, but without the key. It is like a ransomware attack and the attacker himself died, resulting in a situation where the storage disk is almost useless until someone can decode it. Perhaps the story of waiting for Kalki is about the waiting of this decoding. (Needless to say that many of these are getting decoded slowly in this Kali Yuga). Regarding the claim that the ancient mathematicians didn’t know about decimal system or fractions, is poor research enough to establish that the student is biased though he claims otherwise many times in the video. It is also common nowadays to make fun of astrology. Whereas intelligent students of astrology knows that they have been defined as the eyes of science (eyes of the Vedas) and interestingly, we call prediction as insights in modern day mathematics. One can clearly see that modern day descriptive analytics is very similar to astrology predictions which is primarily based on time and events. An ancient sage of the South India, Sage Agastya who is greatly regarded especially in Tamil Nadu, has gone even further with a unique system of prediction called naadi-jyotisha, which many modern ‘intellectuals’ consider a joke. Strangely, modern statistical applications on AI/ML techniques are largely similar to what Agastya Maharishi has used. That the ML techniques based on correlation of human life used in predictions point to their high levels of mathematical understanding. The dandapani (guy with the stick) who is Lord Muruga is depicted as the commander in chief of the Devas army, knowledgeable of the future and even predicted his own father Lord Shiva’s fate of moving around with begging bowl. The story goes that Shiva cursed him (his own son) that let this science of yours be only 50% correct - indications that the primary foundational premise of any statistics is that a coin when tossed would have exactly 50% chance of falling on its head. The sad part is that instead of intelligent Indian boys and girls digging out the encoded stuff, our education system has been designed to keep away from the original Sanskrit texts by considering Sanskrit as a dead language and a language of satanic beliefs. Look at the difficulty the guy in the video finds in pronouncing the name of an ancient Indian mathematician 😂😂😂 And sadly he says he was educated as a Brahmin with the sacred thread of knowledge!! Might be very proper of him to remove it and hand it over to worthy boys and girls who could understand the language of the ancients. It is the same Chinese rumour that he is quoting very ardently that comes into play. Meaning that when a Sanskrit text is translated into English and then English text is quoted to propagate it as absurd, the translators deficient understanding turns to become the real absurdity, rather than the contents of the original Sanskrit text. This over time the original Sanskrit text is kept under the cover and the English translation becomes the Bible and later on the Quran !! Unless Indians go back to learn Sanskrit, they won’t get the keys to unlock this ransomware. There is strong reason to believe that these texts have been encoded out of fear of losing technology advancements to dubious societies that may cause harm to mankind. Maharshi Veda Vyasa is credited with the encoding of the Vedas and compiling it in its current form. The birth of Veda Vyasa as Krishna Dwaipayana and wherein he acquires all knowledge of the world in matter of few hours, probably could be indication of his being a super quantum computer that was built not with metal as in our times, but with human tissues. Today modern science has begun experimenting on storing data in tissues and proteins. Interestingly Veda Vyasa’s earlier generation (his father) was also born extraordinarily, and so was his next generation, his son who was born with a mix of a parrot (Shuka), and found to have acquired all the knowledge just as it was born. (Today with silicon chips we have computer servers that starts up in a few hours; and also some that start up immediately). It is also rather astonishing to find that the Mahabharata has many characters who are not born by the conventional human procreation methods; viz., Bhishma, Karna, the 5 Pandavas, Drona, Kripa, Kripa, 101 Kauravas, Sri Krishna, Balarama, to name a few. Therefore to wish away stories as fantasies is not too easy an intelligent mind. And if someone does so, he only loses another opportunity to grow intellectually which is a personal choice, but definitely not for a society.

Brother its good to have a Religion or rather Dharma (Dharma>>>>Religion) that evolves with scientific advancements. You should be grateful for the community feeling it evokes among your fellow Indians and all the Hindus across the Globe! Atheism has been a part of Dharma since time immemorial and sorry your generation is not the pioneer of critical thinking in Bharat! Spirituality is the need of the hour not just for India but for the global community because the world needs to heal and achieve balance. Your Universal physical laws only applies to this particular Universe but according to Dharma we are living in a cyclical multiverse with imperceivable dimensions. So please come out of your Brahmanical ignorance and be civilized! If somebody baths in cow dung that's not your problem or that of Dharma! People do lot of stupid stuffs on a daily basis. You don't need to own everything. And if you cut yourself out of Dharma then you become rootless! A rootless seedling is destined to fall!

0:51 Illuminality

Right ..right...right...right.....so many right why To hide the wrong....

Why are you saying "right" so very much?

34:30 Even today, a car engine or a truck engine is measured as how many horses😂😂 (horse power) Do we find any horses before a car or a truck ? 😂😂😂

Unfortunately this lecture is being given by an individual who obviously does not know sanskrit nor have he read the original texts nor does he understand the rules of oral transmission within this tradition........ yet goes on to give a lecture....... it is intellectually and academically dishonest

You have chosen to selectively highlight only the bad line of argument present in public discourse on the topic... Please read up on what Quantum physicists like Schrodinger have had to say about Upanishads... Listen to Carl Sagan.... And to pose as if you have read the entire works of Aryabhatta & Bhaskara😂😂 how old are you man... Shun this wokery and delve deeper

36:00 Even modern science goes with imaginations. The atomic nucleus and proton and neutron and electron revolving around it is just an imagination of Neil’s Bohr. In fact the atom it not like that at all 😂😂😂

39:00 This discussion is the real waste of time. There are so many more things told which are not yet discovered or achieved.

new generation rajiv goswami.....agenda setting....

such boring talk.

Can you stop saying RIGHT?

This Guy presenting Hindu way as if he is the First Hindu Atheist .. Even Most of the Hindus know these are not literal narrative 😂😂 Its like Saying Jack and Rose are Fictional charater of James Cameron ..So the event of Titanic Ship sank in Atlantic Ocean itself is a made up story 😂😂😂😂

Nothing scientific in your presentation.

These things can't be monologue. Required debates

Quantifying is science. So Can you , measure imotions

???? 😂 Where is your research