A questioner asks why he lacks the courage to dismiss the advice of so-called wise men who suggest that chanting names is a sufficient spiritual practice, even though he feels this advice is impractical. Acharya Prashant explains that this is because the questioner has not yet personally investigated and verified whether that advice is indeed impractical. The ultimate goal is to clean the inner garbage. If chanting helps in cleaning that garbage, then it is a very good thing and everyone should do it. However, to know whether a medicine will work or not, one must first know the nature of the disease. If one does not know the disease, how will they know if the medicine has worked or not? The experience of the disease will stop. If the experience of pain stops, it means the medicine has worked. Acharya Prashant uses an analogy to elaborate. If someone has a headache due to a brain tumor and is given an analgesic, the headache will be cured. But has the disease been cured? The medicine is right or not, for this, one must first know what the disease is. Sometimes, we mistake the symptom for the disease. For instance, if the mind is wandering, and chanting stops the wandering, it provides a kind of concentration. It seems like a treatment has happened, but the treatment is superficial. The mind's ailment is distraction, and if you start chanting, the distraction stops because the mind cannot do two things at once. It feels like a treatment, but it is not. Vedanta, therefore, puts all its emphasis on self-knowledge, saying first know your disease. The mind says it doesn't want to know the disease, it just wants the medicine because there is a lot of pain. This is why many fake medicines are prevalent in the spiritual market, because people do not know their illness. They seek superficial treatment for superficial symptoms. Vedanta says to make a little effort; the treatment will happen very easily, but first, find out the disease. It is possible that knowing the disease is the treatment itself. When ignorance is the disease, then the diagnosis is the cure. When the lack of self-knowledge is the disease, then knowing it is the treatment. The right method of self-knowledge is the one that emerges from self-knowledge itself. The right method of meditation is the one that emerges from meditation itself. With self-knowledge, all methods work. Without self-knowledge, no method works. Every person requires a different method, and only your own attention can tell you which method will work for you.