Acharya Prashant: How can I identify a master with my limited knowledge? How can I judge his words to be true or false? If I go by faith or seeing their simplicity or innocence, I’m labeled as a blind believer. What should I do?
What is all spirituality about? If I were to ask you, in one sentence as briefly as possible, what is the objective, the purpose of all spirituality, what would it be?
Questioner: Peace, getting rid of suffering.
Acharya Prashant: Whose suffering?
Questioner: My suffering, the suffering of ‘I’.
Acharya Prashant: So, the objective of all spirituality is the annihilation of the ‘I’, the ego. Simple. It is the ego that suffers, so it is not the suffering, really, that you want to get rid of but the sufferer itself. As long as the sufferer is there, how is it possible to not suffer?
Now, with this in mind, approach this verse.
