Acharya Prashant explains the concept of the origin as discussed in the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. He distinguishes between mere modification, where forms change within the same dimension, and true origination. While we observe soil becoming a tree or a body, these changes do not explain the primal cause. The origin is that which remains behind all changes, eluding direct experience but felt as a deep vacancy in consciousness. In the language of Vedanta, this origin is Truth (Satya), while the invisible natural order is Rit. It is the unmovable center of the mind, which becomes an absolute certainty when one turns inward rather than speculating about the external universe. He describes the origin as the 'great void' or the 'great mother' from which all proceeds and into which all returns. Using the analogy of a particle in an orbit, he explains that human energy often creates a centrifugal force that keeps one at the periphery, resisting the gravitational pull of the center. Peace is not found in the orbit of constant doing and involvement; it is found by becoming a non-doer and allowing oneself to be sucked back into the origin. Lao Tzu is thus a poet of 'not doing' and 'soft submission,' suggesting that our active efforts and hard work often serve only to increase the radius of our separation from the center. Acharya Prashant further contrasts the way of knowledge (Gyanmarg) with the way of devotion. The way of knowledge uses skepticism to examine the details of the periphery and the mind until reason exhausts itself and dissolves into silence. The way of devotion, however, is characterized by utter surety and an inexplicable direct connection to the origin, viewing the individual's suffering as a result of being uprooted from this source. He concludes that the origin is unknowable only as long as one maintains a distance from it; once one stands at the origin, the need for knowledge disappears as one is freed from its burden.