Acharya Prashant begins by stating that we are pathetically dependent beings, relying on others even for our birth. He explains that it takes two strangers to get together and work hard for a person to be born. Forget living independently; one cannot even take birth independently. This dependence is so thorough that after birth, someone has to tell you who your father is. Even the physical bond with the mother is replaceable, as another woman or even a goat could have nursed you without you knowing the difference. Not everyone turns to spirituality. Only someone who feels deeply disgraced by this state of dependence will seek it. This requires an ego that gets offended and some intellect to see through hollow notions of self-sufficiency and freedom. Many people console themselves with false ideas of independence, such as earning a lot of money. However, to truly question this, one must have more intellect and apply some thought to realize the depth of their dependence. The speaker then uses an analogy involving Google. He mentions a popular saying, "To know yourself, go within. For everything else, there is Google." He critiques this by asserting that for most people, their entire self—their data, career, relationships, controversies, and physical attributes—can be found on Google. He calls such people "crawlers" in life, who are caught by Google's "trawlers," emphasizing how captured and knowable their conditioned existence is. The rare individual who turns to spirituality is the rebel who finds this state of being unacceptable. This rebel feels that their true essence must be something that cannot be captured by data or known by others. This profound dissatisfaction is the starting point of Vedanta. The Vedantic method is factual and scientific, beginning with the fundamental truths: "I am" and "I am not satisfied." It is an investigation into one's own life, not a belief-based system about a God in the sky. Vedanta is more fundamental than science because while science investigates the external object ("this exists"), Vedanta investigates the seer of the object ("I exist, and I am not well"). The objective of Vedanta is to heal one's condition of suffering. Concepts like "Ishwar" (God with attributes) are presented as a method or a bridge to be used and then crossed, not as the final truth. The ultimate reality, Brahman, is beyond attributes and cannot be an object of use or even transcendence. The Vedantic process starts with the individual's existential dissatisfaction and, through a process of negation and inquiry, leads to the realization of one's true, unconditioned nature.