Acharya Prashant explains that there are no true promises because every promise, by definition, takes an individual deeper into time and the future. He asserts that the way to detect falsehood is not to inquire into the authenticity of a promise, but to simply see if a promise is being made at all. If one is being promised something, they have already been cheated, as the real is not a promise of the future but is imminent, all-pervasive, and present right now. He emphasizes that the truth is not a result of a process, a theory, or a story, and it does not belong to a distant day or land. Acharya Prashant warns against believing in fancy stories about God or the origin of the world, stating that many wisdom books are merely holy imaginations meant to calm an afraid mind. He concludes that spirituality is direct and simple, and anything that becomes a mental object or a story should be discarded immediately.
