Acharya Prashant explains that the distinction between the insentient and the sentient is fundamentally false. Referring to the Bhagavad Gita, he clarifies that Shri Krishna identifies himself as the consciousness within all beings, implying that what we call consciousness is actually a subtle form of matter. Our ordinary consciousness is dependent on the physical brain; if the brain is injured, consciousness vanishes. This dependency on the material world is the source of human suffering, as the mind remains trapped in physical perceptions that can never truly satisfy it. Therefore, true realization occurs only when one transcends physical dependency, which is why saints speak of seeing without eyes and hearing without ears.
