Acharya Prashant responds to a question about the perceived conflict between spirituality and science, particularly concerning claims like water having memory. He explains that from birth, humans are oriented towards the material world. A small child wants material things like toys, nourishment from its mother, and a blanket for warmth. This material focus is inherent to our existence. As this child grows, their focus remains on the material, and they even materialize their spirituality. They create a material God, just as they once wanted a material toy. This is why people imagine God with a physical form, family, emotions like anger and love, and specific actions. This is a form of materialism. The speaker asserts that a religious person can be the most materialistic because they have made even their God material. This tendency extends to attributing spiritual dimensions to various material things, whether it's water, a fruit, a flower, or a specific place. This is all materialism, born from the ego's refusal to accept anything beyond its material understanding. The ego insists on bringing even the highest, most transcendent concepts down to its own fallen, material level. Spirituality and science are not in conflict. Science is a great help to spirituality because it clarifies that in the external, material world, nothing is special. From a scientific perspective, everything is made of the same atomic particles, and there is no fundamental difference between various objects. Science deals with the objective world, while spirituality deals with the subjective 'I'. Science does not talk about the 'I' or the subject; its domain is the object. Spirituality, on the other hand, is for the inner cleansing of the subject. Enlightenment, or liberation, is a universal human need. It is the dream of a state where all pain, suffering, and restlessness are gone. This is the fundamental inner demand to be free from one's current state and become something more. This search for 'something new' or 'something better' is what drives people to change jobs or get married, hoping for a dream-like fulfillment. However, this liberation is not found in the external world. The bondage is within, so liberation must also be found within. The search for liberation is not about finding it but about investigating one's bondages. As you understand and free yourself from your bondages, the demand for liberation itself subsides, because the one who is free does not need to ask for freedom.