Acharya Prashant discusses verse 2.17 of the Bhagavad Gita, where Shri Krishna states that the Self is the one by virtue of which the world exists, and this Self is indestructible. Acharya Prashant highlights that this verse negates the concept of a separate creating agency or God. The world's existence is attributed to the Self, not to a creator God. The world is destructible, whereas the Self is not. This distinction is crucial. The world is understood as comprising the observer and the observed, the subject and the object. The Self, being without a second, is non-dual and therefore unknowable as an object. There can be no perceiver or knower of the Self because it is indivisible and without a companion or witness. The Self is known only to itself. Delving into the Vedantic perspective, Acharya Prashant explains that the world is for the ego. The world is a projection of the ego, which is essentially a state of forgetfulness of one's true nature. Because the ego is incomplete, it projects an incomplete, destructible world. This is contrasted with the idea of a creator God, which, if accepted, would imply that the world, being God's creation, is true and sacred. This belief in a creator God can lead to materialism, as it justifies the pursuit of worldly objects. Vedanta, however, asserts that the world is a product of the ego's assumptions and forgetfulness. The world comes from the ego, and the ego is a mere forgetfulness. Vedanta is about liberation from the world, not its worship. The path of Vedanta is one of unlearning and cleansing, not addition. It involves removing the false assumptions that cloud the Truth. The process is one of remembering, which means to re-join or bring together the fragmented parts of the self. This remembering happens by observing the facts of one's life and the world and seeing that they do not align with the false assumptions one holds. When one sees the falseness of the world, the concept of a creator God also dissolves. The highest value must be placed on the highest, which is the Truth, the Self. For the sake of this absolute Truth, everything else in the relative world is disposable.