When Ancient Wisdom Finally Made Sense to Me
“In an infinite universe, even the impossible becomes inevitable.” Recently, I found myself thinking about something deeply unsettling — or rather, something that should have been unsettling, but strangely wasn’t. Growing up, I had heard the ideas of the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita countless times: the universe is ananta (infinite) the soul cannot be destroyed life repeats itself through countless births, and moksha is liberation from this cycle For most of my life, these ideas felt poetic but abstract — meaningful, yet distant. I accepted them culturally, not intellectually. That changed while I was thinking about π — an irrational number whose digits extend infinitely — a subtle realization emerged. If π truly extends without bound, then every finite numerical sequence must exist somewhere within it . Not because those sequences were placed there intentionally, but because infinity combined with structure makes their existence inevitable. For most of us, π remains a ...
