Acharya Prashant responds to a question about observing one's biological compulsions as a path to being truly alive. He affirms this but cautions against blaming *Prakriti* (Nature) or anyone else for one's condition. He explains that one's existence is a result of a desire to exist, which necessitates being in some condition. Since anything that exists must be in a condition, one gives oneself either a good or a bad condition. The key is to simply observe this without blame. When asked if observing is the entire purpose of life, Acharya Prashant clarifies that the ego is in so much immediate pain and distress that it doesn't need an overarching purpose. The ego is like a patient on a ventilator, concerned only with surviving the next moment. Its focus is on its immediate surroundings, with the most immediate being itself. Therefore, concepts like an 'ultimate' purpose are meaningless to the ego. He connects this to evolutionary biology, stating that one cannot appreciate *Sankhya Yoga* without understanding evolution. *Sankhya Yoga* is inherently evolutionary, unlike many religious doctrines that focus on a singular act of creation. In *Sankhya*, there is no creator God because everything is in a continuous process of evolution. If things evolve, they are not created in one stroke. This evolutionary perspective is a significant contribution of *Sankhya*, influencing Yoga, Vedanta, and Buddhism. Addressing another question about Arjun being a 'dead man' driven by bodily tendencies, Acharya Prashant explains that the 'dead man walking' is the 'dead man suffering'. The instruction of the Bhagavad Gita is to cremate this dead self. The ego is this dead man, suffering precisely because it is dead. It is a needless, forceful intrusion, a fundamental belief or superstition. He uses the story of Adam and Eve as a metaphor: they lived in an egoless, natural state (*sahajata*) until they ate the apple of knowledge, which gave them the 'I' or self-consciousness. This needless knowledge, a false belief, led to their suffering and banishment from bliss. What we call consciousness is merely material reactivity, a compulsive, patterned response, like iron reacting to a magnet. Spirituality, he concludes, is about bringing life by putting the dead to death.