Acharya Prashant explains verses from the Hamsa Gita where the sages Sanaka and others ask Shri Krishna, "Who are you?" Shri Krishna responds not with a direct answer but by questioning the validity of their query. He asks, "O Brahmins! If the ultimate reality is completely devoid of multiplicity, then how can such a question about the Atman be logical? Or, if I were to speak to answer, on what basis of caste, quality, action, or relation should I answer?" Acharya Prashant elaborates that Shri Krishna's response is a teaching in itself, a negation of the question. This is connected to the central Vedantic question, "Who am I?" (Koham). The teaching implies that the question is flawed because it arises from the false assumption that one has a separate, individual identity. Shri Krishna's logic is that one is either the Atman (the Self) or Prakriti (nature/matter), and in neither case does the question hold. If one is the Atman, there can be no multiplicity or separate identity, as the Atman is one, non-dual, and omniscient; it would neither need to ask who it is, nor would there be an 'other' to ask. If one is merely Prakriti, a physical body, then one is made of the same five elements as everything else, possessing no unique identity to be described, just like a clod of earth. This response attacks the very notion of separateness and the egoic belief that "I am something." The speaker clarifies that the spiritual method is not to provide an answer to such questions but to dismantle the false premise from which they arise. The mark of a truly spiritual person is that they address the questioner's underlying assumptions rather than just the question itself. This approach, of cutting the question at its root, is a traditional method in Indian spirituality, where the aim is to dissolve the questioner's false sense of self, which is the source of the query.