Sir, have you had a near-death experience? || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Patna (2023)
Questioner(Q): Hello Sir, I am Saurav, PhD student at IIT-Patna. Sir, a couple of years ago I met with a bike accident. At that moment, I felt like time was moving very slowly. I don’t know if it was just my feelings, but I searched on the internet and I got to know that when people are near death, they experience something unusual or see other worldly elements or beings which they can’t explain.
I got to know from the media that some years back you also had a near-death experience. So, did you feel something like that or is it just our imagination?
Acharya Prashant (AP): You don’t just randomly die, there is a reason one dies. You know what happens before death? The blood supply to brain starts becoming irregular and diminished, therefore the brain cannot work properly; so you go half mad. Isn’t that obvious?
One does not just abruptly, suddenly die; in most cases, it’s brain death. Or if you get a heart attack or cardiac arrest, then also the blood supply to the brain, that reduces, and the brain takes not more than five minutes to get severely damaged when the blood supply becomes constrained. So, what will happen to the brain? The blood is not there due to disease, or accident, or impending death; the blood itself is not there, so the brain will start hallucinating. That’s all that there is, nothing more than that.
What kind of otherworldly experience or what? Even when the brain had enough blood, it was unable to make sense of even this world. When the brain was healthy, even then it was unable to make sense of even this world; now that the brain is about to finish off, it will become so powerful that it will start making sense of the other world? Can that happen?
