Acharya Prashant addresses a question about the limits of spirituality, especially concerning social discrimination and mental conditions. He clarifies that spirituality does not offer answers to various questions but provides one central solution. The core problem, he explains, is the 'I' itself, the questioner. Spirituality's solution is the dissolution of this false 'I'. When the questioner, the false 'I', is gone, all suffering disappears. He refutes the idea that one cannot afford to be spiritual, countering with, "How do you afford to not be spiritual?" He explains that not being spiritual is a mistake at the very first step of existence. Acharya Prashant elaborates that spirituality is 'I'-awareness. It helps one realize that their experiences, such as delusions or physical ailments, are their own subjective matter. This realization empowers the individual with a choice. If an experience is subjective, one has the power to modify it or, at the very least, control their reaction and attitude towards it. He gives a personal example of having tinnitus, where he initially searched for an external source of the noise. Upon learning it was a subjective condition, he gained the choice to not fight it and let it be. Spirituality, therefore, is about having the choice to be your own master, rather than a slave to the body or the world. Responding to a follow-up question about the morality of sacrificing lives, Acharya Prashant defines love and sacrifice in a spiritual context. He states that love is the desire to rise upwards, an attraction towards the highest. Any attraction to something other than the highest is not true love. Sacrifice is giving up that which impedes this spiritual ascent. He clarifies that when speaking of sacrificing twenty lives for one Buddha, he refers to twenty lovers willingly laying down their lives out of love, not the forced sacrifice of unwilling individuals. He illustrates this with an anecdote about the Buddha, who, out of compassion, was ready to sacrifice his own flesh to save a goat from being slaughtered. This shows that the one with the highest consciousness is prepared to sacrifice himself for those with lower consciousness. Love for those at a lower level is to aspire for a higher level for them, and love for the one at the highest level is to be compassionate towards those below.
