Acharya Prashant addresses the assertion that spirituality, like superstition, is a product of scientific ignorance. He agrees that there is a vast difference between superstition and spirituality, and he himself is strongly against superstition. He concurs with the premise that when people are ignorant about phenomena, they create stories and imaginations which, over time, become traditions of superstition. This is how beliefs about gods like Indra causing rain or goddesses causing smallpox arise. However, Acharya Prashant distinguishes this from true spirituality. He explains that a distorted form of religion, which is essentially superstition, operates on the principle of 'believe' ('maano'). It presents a story, a principle, or a statement and demands unquestioning belief. Refusal to believe leads to being labeled irreligious or being threatened with harm. This method of forcing belief, without proof or logic, is a significant problem. He points out that the very foundation of such belief is flawed because the believer, the ego, is itself false, so its beliefs hold no value. In contrast, true spirituality does not begin with belief but with inquiry ('pucho'). It encourages one to reject all beliefs and instead ask questions. The only certain starting point for spirituality is the existence of the questioner, the fundamental sense of 'I am'. Acharya Prashant explains that both science and spirituality are rooted in inquiry. However, while science questions external objects, spirituality questions both the object and the subject—the seer. It asks, 'Who is the one seeing?' because if the seer is false, what it perceives cannot be real. Therefore, spirituality is a deeper, more internal, and more rigorous discipline than even science. It is a quest for truth, not a web of imagination or stories. He concludes that science is a branch or a subset of spirituality, and the advancement of science will not render spirituality obsolete. True spirituality is the search for truth, not the acceptance of beliefs, and it is fundamentally different from the superstitions that arise from ignorance.