00:00One question that often people ask always is that all these ideas that you are saying,
00:05the existence or suffering, me and everything, they do not confirm the scientific methodology
00:14because none of it is verifiable. I would say they are very much examinable, verifiable,
00:22falsifiable, but they require an additional quality, which is of honesty. They can be
00:28falsified only in the first person. You see, science operates on peer review. I claim something
00:36and then the claim has to be objectively available for you to review it. But then here we are talking
00:45of a felt experience. We are talking of my inner suffering. We are talking of how I feel when I
00:53get up at 3 a.m. in the night. And I make claim to you that I am feeling perfectly
00:59okay.
01:00We are masters at hiding our condition. So there is no way you can falsify my claim. You ask me,
01:06so Prashant, how are you doing? And I say, Pratosh, I am so good. I am doing so well.
01:12How will you falsify my claim? I am suffering within. I am all rotten within. But you cannot falsify it
01:17from the outside. So falsification is possible but only in first person. So that's the reason Vedant,
01:23I call it as a mirror. The mirror can show to you where you stand. But whether or not you
01:29acknowledge
01:30what the mirror has shown you depends on your personal honesty. So that honesty, that Satya Nishtha
01:36is something that is central to self-inquiry. In science, that is not needed. In science, you make a claim,
01:42somebody else can come and dismiss it. In self-inquiry, only you can dismiss your own claim.
01:49Yeah. So well put. I mean, that's why we have these stories of Satyakama, Jabala and all that, right?
01:55The first test that people take is of that of honesty, right? Everything else will come later. So
02:00just see if the person is even qualified to stand in front of the mirror. I mean, that resonates
02:06pretty well. When students approach the world, the universe. Okay. Now to do self-inquiry,
02:13you don't need anything much actually. See, that's the whole point.
