Acharya Prashant addresses the question of why, despite material and technological progress, issues like suicide, depression, and climate change are increasing. He explains that one does not need to criticize or minimize natural tendencies like greed, consumption, and fear, but rather understand them. Fear, he illustrates, is not about a specific object; if one object of fear is removed, the fear itself persists and attaches to something else. Similarly, greed is not about a particular object of desire; acquiring one thing does not satiate greed, which then seeks another object. This indicates that what greed and fear truly point to is something else entirely. These tendencies reveal that the urge to consume is endless because we are consuming the wrong things, not knowing what we truly want. This is linked to the concept of the self, or the "I," which is ubiquitous in our existence but cannot be physically located. The only way to know this "I" is by observing and understanding these very tendencies, as they are its expressions. Life itself is the name of these tendencies, and a beautiful life is one where you know who you are. Without self-knowledge, life remains a blind, staggering rush. The speaker asserts that the global problems mentioned by the questioner, such as climate change and resource depletion, stem from a lack of self-knowledge. When we do not understand ourselves, we cannot understand our relationship with the universe, which he refers to as Prakriti. This lack of understanding leads to destruction. The solution, therefore, is not technological but spiritual, which he defines simply as self-awareness or self-knowledge. He critiques the current education system for being focused on preparing individuals to earn and consume, rather than fostering self-knowledge. The fundamental problem is that we are uneducated in the inner sense, regardless of our academic qualifications.