Acharya Prashant explains that religion has been reduced to crass materialism because people are inherently material-oriented. He clarifies that the rightful domain of religion is not physical matter, gases, or chemical reactions, but rather the single question of the ego: what it is, why it suffers, and how it can be liberated. He asserts that any religious discourse focusing on dietary rules, clothing, house directions, or celestial bodies is a sham or tribal superstition. He emphasizes that the physical body is material and reacts to material substances regardless of one's spiritual status. To illustrate this, he points out that even great luminaries like Shri Krishna, Socrates, and Jesus Christ were subject to physical injury and death, and figures like Ramana Maharshi, Ramakrishna Paramahansa, and Gautam Buddha succumbed to physical ailments like cancer and stomach issues. He concludes that spirituality does not grant immunity from material laws or physical death.