We readily admit we know little about neuroscience, yet we are sure we know our office, our family, our own name and address. That certainty is the bigger problem. Whatever we claim to know, we turn into a target, the way a blip on a radar marks a plane for the missile. And the one thing we never look at is the one who claims to know. When a teacher holds up a mirror, we call it disagreement and walk away. Is it really disagreement, or the fear of being dissolved?
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[From a Bhagavad Gita session at St Giles-in-the-Fields, London, 2026]
Acharya Prashant: All of this is being addressed to the ego. And what are the symptoms of that ego? A few symptoms I mentioned. The ego is deluded about everything. Sarvajnana Vimudha. Not that the ego is in dark about a particular object, a particular area of life, a particular sector. Because the ego is the one holding the knowledge, appropriating the knowledge, using the knowledge for self-preservation. Therefore, the ego distorts all knowledge. Sarvajnana, Sarvajnana. Knowledge is again food to the ego. Which basically means that the ego does not know anything. Anything. Sarvajnana Vimudha. Not that I do not know about politics. Not that I do not know about economics. Not that I do not know how the car works. Not that I don’t understand the society. I do not know anything.
And people will readily and apparently humbly admit that they lack knowledge in one particular area that appears so humble to admit, no? You know, “I do not know much about neuroscience.” Oh, nice fellow. He doesn’t make false claims. Krishna is lashing a whip here. He’s saying, “You are not just
