Acharya Prashant discusses the profound disconnect between organized religion and true spirituality, citing Saint Kabir's observation that Maya eventually co-opts sacred symbols, rituals, and verses. He explains that traditional methods and rituals, though originally intended to be helpful, have lost their efficacy and now serve as obstacles to truth. This has led to a situation where people prioritize cultural traditions and ancestral rituals over core spiritual texts like the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. He notes that many people today engage in practices that are not sanctioned by Vedanta, yet they defend these actions through cultural jingoism and popular consensus rather than spiritual merit. He further highlights a disastrous consequence of this confusion: intellectual and young people often conflate religion with spirituality. Because they witness negative behaviors like hooliganism or the caste system associated with religion, they mistakenly discard the liberating wisdom of the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita as well. Acharya Prashant emphasizes that these core texts actually refute systems like the caste system. He concludes that there is an urgent need to liberate the word 'religion' from those who have sabotaged it or to create a new stream of spiritual refinement, similar to how the Buddha had to establish a new path to return to the spiritual core when the existing religion of his time became monopolized by a priestly class.