Acharya Prashant addresses a question regarding the conflict between intent and action, using the example of Robert Oppenheimer. He explains that Vedanta is very lucid and eloquent about this matter. If you only have worldly knowledge without knowledge of the self, you are inviting disaster. It is difficult to say who is in a worse position: a person who is ignorant in the worldly sense, or a person who knows a great deal about worldly affairs but knows very little about himself. When you set out to unravel the mysteries of the atom or go deep into the nucleus, you must simultaneously carry the responsibility to know the human mind. We as humanity share a collective mind, with common thirsts, desires, and vices. When you unleash a colossal source of energy like the nucleus, you must know the collective mind of humanity that will use it. Otherwise, it is not surprising that what you discover will fall into the wrong hands, which are not the hands of a few particular people, but the hands of the collective, ignorant human mind. The speaker refutes the idea of a dichotomy between intent and action, stating that the intent itself is misplaced. The intent must have a certain wholeness. When you say you want to know, you must first know who wants to know. He advises against giving a pass certificate to the intention, arguing that the scientists who created the bomb are not blameless just because their discovery was misused. They should have known their own minds and the mind of humanity. The speaker describes the 'I' as a hollow black hole and explains that while we think we see reality with our eyes (E-Y-E-S), the real reality is hidden behind the 'I'. He clarifies that intent and action are essentially the same, and their mother is consciousness. It is easy to lie about the intention because it is subtle and occurs in the mind, whereas action is gross, visible, and irrefutable. The fundamental intention must be to know oneself. Without this mother intention, all other intentions will fall flat. Life truly begins when one asks, "Who am I?" Before that, one is like a piece of flesh moving about mechanically. Self-awareness is a continuous process that should begin early and never end. Concurrent to the mind's engagement with the world, there must be a process of self-awareness, using that very engagement as an opportunity to know who you are.