Acharya Prashant explains that the words of sages and scriptures are not meant for intellectual understanding but act as medicine to transform the state of the mind. Humans typically live in a state of constant flux, attached to things that come and go, which leads to inevitable suffering through hope for the new and fear of losing the old. While the world speaks the language of arrival and departure, birth and death, a sage shocks the mind by declaring that nothing is ever born and nothing ever dies. This contradiction challenges our daily experience where nothing seems permanent, yet the speaker asserts that if everything in time is impermanent, then suffering becomes permanent.
