In response to a question about why Swami Vivekananda ate meat, Acharya Prashant explains that it is because no person is perfect. He advises that one can either learn the things that are worth learning from a person or focus on the things that should be ignored. People tend to live in extremes. One extreme is to make someone you consider respectable or venerable into an idol, and you cannot tolerate seeing any fault in them. He questions why they cannot have flaws. Acharya Prashant shares a personal example, stating that when he saw some people starting to respect him a few years ago, he forcefully and repeatedly said that he has a hundred kinds of shortcomings and that they should not consider him enlightened. He believes it is the responsibility of a person who is given respect to publicly declare their own faults. Otherwise, only a manicured, flawless image is presented to the world, and people start to believe they are pure as if washed in milk, which is not true for anyone. He quotes, "Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future," adding that there is nothing to be ashamed of or surprised about in this. Everyone is born the same and progresses in their consciousness. It is the duty of saints to clearly state the flaws they live with, and sometimes, one is not even aware of their own flaws. He uses Ramakrishna Paramahansa as an example. If someone today told Ramakrishna that eating fish harms the environment, he would have had the greatness to accept it and stop. However, people get stuck on the fact that Ramakrishna ate fish. There were many other things in which Ramakrishna was not perfect. Instead of focusing on the ten ways his greatness is manifested, people latch onto the one flaw they find. Answering the question directly, he says Swami Vivekananda ate meat because he was a human, and every human can have shortcomings. One should give even the highest person the right to have some flaws. However, these flaws are not things to be learned. One should acknowledge the flaws and then decide not to learn them, but to learn what is worth learning from that person. He gives an analogy: the mouth from which the rishis uttered the Brahman also had some bacteria. The highest verse comes from that same mouth. One should focus on the verse, not the bacteria. People, however, focus on the bacteria and conclude that bacteria must be a good thing. He dismisses the idea of miracles or supernatural powers associated with spirituality, stating that the body is subject to the laws of nature. He criticizes the body-centric nature of people who expect spiritual advancement to result in physical specialities, such as having four hands or flying. He emphasizes that such things do not happen and that one should avoid mixing spirituality with the body in this way.