Does spirituality enable one to predict the future?

In this issue, there is no jewel, and no hidden diamond that carries any value. Doctors predict reasonably well that this fellow has two or three months to live. In that there is application of intellect, not the promise of freedom.

And if you are watching a thousand people die over the course of your career, a lot many of them, fifty or hundred, you will be able to reasonably, accurately predict how many days or weeks they have left with them.

All this is: numbers, statistics, chance.

None of this is in the ambit of Spirituality. None of this knowledge will help you in Liberation.

This is sheer curiosity.

When you say that your grandfather was able to accurately predict that he would die ten days hence, you should also go and collect more representative data. Let me collect it right now.

Anybody sitting here, who has not ever had premonition that he is going to die? Over the course of your life, have you ever not felt that you would not live for long? It happens. And with many people, it happens multiple times, right? At some point or the other, you feel as if you will die.

And obviously, all these speculations, premonitions, instincts, are proven false. In a thousand such cases, one or two, are going to…