#2521 - Aravind Srinivas

Joe Rogan· Host0:00

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Aravind Srinivas· Guest0:14

You too. Thanks for having me.

Joe Rogan· Host0:16

My pleasure.

Aravind Srinivas· Guest0:17

Yeah.

Joe Rogan· Host0:17

How many podcasts have you done?

Aravind Srinivas· Guest0:18

[laughs] I, I don't know. I don't know the count, but maybe 10s.

Joe Rogan· Host0:23

Well, when we were talking, we were talking in the lobby, I was like, "This gu- dude would be a good guest," because we were talking about ancient Hindu scriptures where you were talking to me about something that sounds like a nuclear bomb.

Aravind Srinivas· Guest0:33

Yeah.

Joe Rogan· Host0:33

And I was like, "Oh- The Brahmastra ... I need to know more about this."

Aravind Srinivas· Guest0:37

Yeah, yeah. So, um, the Brahmastra is part of the Mahabharata. I mean, you've talked- Yes ... about Mahabharata in a bunch of different- Yeah, the Ramayanas and yeah. Yeah, yeah. So the Mahabharata is one of the two Hindu epics. Uh, the other one is Ramayan. But Mahabharata's more interesting, it's more complicated. It's like a lot of different stories interleaved together. And, um, the Brahmastra is the equivalent of the hydrogen bomb.

Joe Rogan· Host1:02

And how is it described?

Aravind Srinivas· Guest1:04

It's described as a weapon of, like, mass destruction, gonna annihilate, like, human population. Should not be used at any cost. There's, like, a moral contract, like, y- you clearly have to be, like, you know, violating so many things at, at a deeply moral level to even, like, wield it. And, um, it's not actually a lo- it's not actually ac- accessible to most warriors. There's probably,