Why Should I Trust you, Acharya Prashant? Why Should I Trust the Gita?
The same suffering that we hide behind so many things— entertainment, even knowledge, so-called distractions, achievements, pleasures, accumulations, prestige, sanctions, and approvals from all around. We hide that fact of human suffering behind all these things. So, it's a big problem. It's a big problem that we want to address. So now, I want to look at — why am I suffering? Why am I suffering?
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Questioner: My name is Hiren Patel. I'm a PhD student in the physics department. So, I'm also exploring the other science branches, like we have neuroscience and cognitive science, to understand ourselves, to understand human behavior. So, why do we need spirituality and the Vedas? What type of question will it address that is not covered in our science branches?
Acharya Prashant: The difference primarily is that when you go into neuroscience or the science of cognition, the various branches of philosophy including psychology, you remain at your own center. You hold on to your identity, the self, and holding on to yourself, you want to accumulate knowledge about this and that, which might even include knowledge about the self.
For example, in neuroscience, right? So here I am Hiren and Hiren wants to know about the inner neural networks, but Hiren wants to know about them, remaining— that’s not something to be questioned. And even if some kind of questioning does occur, even if some kind of deconstruction does occur, it’s going to be accidental.
