Acharya Prashant addresses the question of why, despite scientific education being compulsory, people with high degrees still believe in superstitions. He begins by stating that the cure for superstition is not science, and it is a great superstition to believe that science can eliminate superstition. Science is an external thing, dealing with the objective world that can be perceived by the senses and conceptualized by the mind. Superstition, on the other hand, is an internal phenomenon, even though its objects may be external. Science is honest about its boundaries; it does not concern itself with what is in a person's heart. It deals with the object, not the inner state of the observer. This is why we have the phenomenon of the educated superstitious person, who might launch a rocket but only after consulting an auspicious time. The speaker argues that the problem lies in an incomplete education system. We have received knowledge of the external world, which he terms 'Avidya' (worldly knowledge), but we have not received 'Vidya' (self-knowledge). Our education teaches us about everything in the world but nothing about ourselves. The result is an educated superstitious person. He gives the example of a rocket being launched only at an auspicious time, or the fact that the world's most educated and affluent people are the biggest emitters of carbon, leading to climate change. He asks if any technology can stop human violence, greed, and savagery. Acharya Prashant asserts that superstition will be removed not by science, but by pure, rigorous spirituality, which is nothing but self-inquiry. He clarifies that he is not referring to dogmatic or fraudulent spirituality, but the kind that asks fundamental questions like, "Who is the one seeing from within?" or "Who is the one listening from behind the ears?" He cites the Kena Upanishad, which inquires into the source of thought, the seer behind the eyes, and the listener behind the ears. Superstition is defined as believing without knowing or questioning. He points out that many of our life's beliefs—about getting a good salary, getting married, having children—are also superstitions because we accept them without inquiry. The intellectual rigor we apply to subjects like math and physics must also be applied to our own lives.