The only honest answer is "I do not know" || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Question: What am I?

Speaker: Being a fairly well read person I am feeling a temptation to start answering it on the basis of what I have read so far. And there are books and books, entire libraries on these questions:

Who am I? What am I? Where do I come from? What am I here for? What is the purpose of life?

There are entire libraries devoted to this question. I have read a little bit so I feel the temptation to start answering but as soon as I want to answer you, something within me reminds that ‘you’ already know the answer. When you already know the answer, what is the point in me answering? Then there is even more wise voice that comes to me and tells me that you not only know one answer, you in fact more than one answer. You know two answers at least. How can I tell something to somebody who already has an answer, even two answers. I cannot. I must not. If I do that it will be injustice. So, how do I answer you? I will answer you by asking you that don’t you already have a lot of notions about who you are. Don’t you already have a lot of beliefs about who you are?

Speaker: (Starts addressing another person with name Rishabh as Kunal). Kunal, Kunal! (The particular person named Kumal does not respond).You already know that you are not Kunal. How were you feeling when I was calling Rishabh as Kunal? Were you feeling good or awkward? Kunal already knows that he is Kunal and he is asking me, “Who am I?” You already know that you are Kunal. Kunal is a 60 kg. thing sitting in that corner. That is why when I do not look at that corner but look at this corner, it does not appear to be right. You already know that I am this body. Kunal already knows that he is a 60 kgs body sitting in that corner. When he already knows so much, how can I answer? See how much he knows;