Acharya Prashant addresses a questioner who feels a sense of nihilism from the Gita's teaching that everything in nature is a phenomenon. The questioner asks why one should care about the outcome of the war or any action if everything is just a process. Acharya Prashant immediately focuses on the questioner's use of the word "if," challenging him to replace it with "is." He asks, "To you, is everything in nature a phenomenon?" When the questioner admits that in his daily life he does not see people as mere processes, Acharya Prashant explains that this is precisely the issue. For the individual, the world is not phenomenal; it is meaningful and purposeful, and this is the root of suffering. The speaker clarifies that "phenomenon" essentially means illusion. The purpose of all spirituality, including the Gita, is to heal one's suffering. Since the world is not a phenomenon to the individual, they suffer. Therefore, they must be shown that the world is indeed a phenomenon. This knowledge is not an abstract concept but a practical tool to relieve the suffering that arises from the inner condition of illusion. The purpose of spirituality is not to deliver abstract concepts but to relieve the suffering that comes from taking the world as real. Acharya Prashant explains that all such nihilistic questions arise from bad logic. Vedanta always asks, "For whom? To whom?" To the individual, the world is not phenomenal, which is why they suffer and need the knowledge of the Gita. He uses the example of a murderer: in the absolute sense, there might be no person to kill, but to the murderer, who believes in the reality of people, a person exists. Therefore, in his own frame of reference, he has committed a murder and must be punished. The objective of punishment, from a spiritual standpoint, is to "beat the nonsense" and the personal frame of reference out of the individual, bringing them back to their senses. The knowledge of the Gita is necessary because one is embarking on a course of action believing the phenomenal to be real, and this belief perpetuates suffering.