#2521 - Aravind Srinivas
157 min•7/1/2026
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2521 - Aravind Srinivas
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Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out! The Joe Rogan Experience. Showing my day, Joe Rogan Podcast, my night, all day! Good to see you. You too. Thanks for having me. My pleasure. Yeah. How many podcasts have you done? I don't know. I don't know the count, but maybe tens. Well, when we were talking, we were talking in the lobby, I was like, this 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. Yeah. And I was like, oh. The Brahmastra. I need to know more about this. Yeah, yeah. So, the Brahmastra is part of the Mahabharata. I mean, you've talked about Mahabharata. Yeah, the Vramanas. Yeah, yeah. So, the Mahabharata is one of the two Hindu epics. The other one is Ramayana. But Mahabharata is more interesting. It's more complicated. It's like a lot of different stories interleaved together. And the Brahmastra is the equivalent of the hydrogen bomb. And how is it described? It's described as a weapon of, like, mass destruction. You're going to annihilate, like, human population. Should not be used at any cost. There's, like, a moral contract. You clearly have to be, like, you know, violating so many things at a deeply moral level to even, like, wield it. And it's not actually accessible to most warriors. There's probably, like, two warriors in the world in that era who are allowed to use it. And it has to be passed through special access. Like, a teacher has to, like, pass…