In response to a question about why India, despite being a spiritual center, still experiences violence and filth, Acharya Prashant explains that spirituality is not something inherent in the air of India. A child born in India does not automatically become spiritual just by breathing the air. To become spiritual, one must directly engage with scriptures and books. He questions who is actually reading these scriptures, suggesting that the lack of engagement with them is the answer to the problem. He illustrates this with an anecdote about a Ramakrishna Mission bookshop in Mumbai, where so few people buy books that they don't even offer UPI payments, managing with just cash and cards. The books in question are those of great masters like Shri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. Acharya Prashant elaborates that being born in India, or even in Bengal, does not make one spiritual. Everyone is born as an animal, and it requires great effort to become a human being. He criticizes the entire education system, stating that it is solely focused on earning a livelihood, or 'roti'. The most esteemed colleges are those that provide the best job placements, emphasizing professional education over arts or sciences for their own sake. There are no institutions for inner education, and subjects like philosophy are not taught. This leads to an inner poverty where the sole focus is on money. He points out that even people from top professional institutions are deeply superstitious because they are not taught about the mind and life. They may be experts in their narrow fields but are ignorant about veganism, the environmental crisis, or the climate catastrophe. We have forgotten why we came out of the jungle in the first place and are now wandering blindly in the marketplace, having forgotten our home and our goal. Violence, he states, is not in the act but in the being; ignorance itself is violence. We are all fooling ourselves, pretending not to know the truth, and have become skilled artists at hiding it from ourselves. Acharya Prashant uses the analogy of a sick person who, instead of going to a hospital, goes to a beauty salon for superficial fixes. The problem is not being sick, as we are all born sick, but the sin is in seeking superficial solutions instead of treating the underlying illness. The inner restlessness we feel is a potential agent for change, but we neutralize this tension with entertainment, which provides a false sense of release. This keeps us in a state of intoxication, preventing real transformation.