Were Internet and wifi present at the time of the Mahabharata?

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answer your question? Question, was internet and Wi-Fi present at the time of the Mahabharata? An Indian minister has recently said that internet and Wi-Fi were existing and it was through internet that Sanjay saw the Mahabharata battlefield and reported it to Duryodhana.
Answer, when we look at the epics such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, there is definitely a connection can see some amount of extraordinary events happening over there. So, for example, although Kurukshetra and Hastinapura are far away, it is said that Sanjay was able to see. So, how was he able to see? The Mahabharata says that Vyasadeva gave him some special blessings by which he was able to see.
So, that there may be much in the universe which we cannot understand by our present scientific or technological understanding. That is something which even scientists are ready to accept because that’s the purpose by which they do research. But, when we use terms which have come from the modern scientific context and which have a specific meaning and which are associated with particular methods of technological usage, when we use them and apply them in the context of the epics, then we may be probably misunderstanding and misapplying things.
Broadly speaking, we consider the knowledge that is given in the scriptures, in the itihasas, the puranas, if we consider that knowledge to be like a broad circle, we could divide that into three sectors. One is that knowledge which agrees with modern science. This will be a small sector.
Another is that which differs from modern science. And the third, which is the major part of scriptural knowledge, is knowledge that transcends modern science. That there is a spiritual world beyond the material world, that there is a supreme personality who resides over there, all this is something that is beyond science to perceive.
So, for us when we study epics, we should keep our focus on that spiritual knowledge. And that is what we approach scriptures for. There is a nationalistic zeal within India, which tries to say that everything that is there in the western world, was already there in India.
It could be that there are some aspects of knowledge which were very advanced in India. For example, Vedic mathematics was advanced. And it has some techniques, especially in arithmetic, which can work much better than what we have in modern maths.
And like that, some other bodies of knowledge may also be there. But just making vague claims, and banding around terms which have specific meanings, is something which doesn’t reflect any deep intellectual thought. And it will not bring the kind of interest and respectful attention that we would like to have for the scriptural body of knowledge.
As far as how there was something like this present in those times, we simply understand that there can be powers beyond what science knows. And based on those powers, there can be technologies that science knows nothing of. But through it all, the point is that we don’t have to position scripture as a competitor of science.
Scripture offers us knowledge of entirely different categories than what science offers us. And let’s focus on the distinctive blessings that scripture has to offer and not get diverted from that thrust by making claims that reflect a lack of intellectual rigor and that do not help people focus on the spiritual message of scriptures.