Acharya Prashant explains that understanding cannot be carried forward from one moment to the next; it must be fresh and immediate. If understanding is stored in memory, it becomes a mere concept or theory, losing its truth. He critiques the modern education system for conditioning people to equate learning with memorization, which creates a burden that prevents true immersion in the present. While memory is useful for daily functional tasks, forcing it to retain spiritual truths is futile, as the human system naturally remembers what is essential.