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A study (link attached) on the mammal biomass distribution among wild, domesticated and humans reveals something deeply unsettling. About 150 years ago, there was an equal proportion of wild mammal biomass (including marine life) and humans along with animals used by humans. Now, there is only 5% of wild mammal biomass on this planet whereas humans along with animals used by humans such as cows, pigs, horses etc. account for the remaining 95%.

The leading cause of this shift is the cumulative effect of change in land use pattern, overfishing (driven by industrial scale fishing) and factory farming.

This is a consequence of blind consumption of the collective humanity and these desires behind the consumption do not keep the wild mammals in mind. The population is shrinking because of our utter disregard for the wild.

From the teaching of Acharya Prashant, I have learnt that when blind desire takes over, nothing except the way to fulfill that desire is seen. If clearing of rainforest can yield farming land for palm oil resulting in cheaper potato chips, why would I even see or care about what is happening to the rainforest and the wildlife in it?

This is why self-knowledge and education of self to the masses is extremely important as Acharya Prashant continuously teaches. Self-knowledge not only alleviates the dark place from where the desires originate but also dismantles any beliefs that there is fundamentally any difference between different life forms. Self-knowledge can be the only source of respect for our own being and others.

Study on biomass proportion

How do you see the following questions-

1. How can we foster better relationships with the wild?
2. Can truly genuine respect be given to other species without first respecting our own being? 
3. What does respecting your own being mean to you?

We can call our nation vishwaguru all we want to, but the truth is, education and health as basic requirements are not being met in our country. Our annual Union budget allocates 2 percent to education. China, which has arguably one of the best education infrastructures in the world, invests 14 percent to 15 percent on education annually. The sad thing is, people wouldn't pay to a trust or NGO that builds schools, they would rather spend money on donating for temples and mosques. An estimate of 40 to 60% of people in our country survive on less than 5$ per day. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer

Our Hindu Sher here who's out to preserve the purity of science claims that everything from the Pythagoras Theorem to Modern Physics has been swiped from the Upanishads without getting its proper due. He thinks the scientific methodology is a western construct.

So I thought to seek his advice on this Degenerate Perturbation Theory problem I'm stuck in on the basis of Upanishads and Man just blocked me. Help me out guys, where do I go 😔💔❓

Acharya Prashant cuts through the usual tech optimism and tech panic to ask something far more uncomfortable. He hands us a mirror and asks us to look closely. We have built machines that can think faster than us, navigate better than us, and even decide for us. Yet inside, we are still the same creatures who, only fifty thousand years ago, were eating leaves and chasing small animals with crude tools. That raw, impulsive mind now holds intercontinental missiles and artificial intelligence. We have outsourced our memory to search engines, our direction to GPS, and now our very thinking to algorithms. We have not become wiser or more grounded. We have simply become more powerful. And that power, without inner maturity, is turning against us. We see it in the climate collapsing, in species vanishing, in oceans poisoning. We see it in our own shrinking attention spans and our inability to sit still or think deeply. We are heirs to a fortune we never earned, surrounded by comforts that emperors once envied, yet inwardly we are shrinking. The external dazzle blinds us to the internal emptiness. And that is the great deception of our age.

So what is the way out? Acharya Prashant does not ask us to throw away our phones or reject progress. That would be foolish and impractical. What he asks is far harder. He asks us to grow up on the inside, to match our outer power with inner clarity. We must reclaim our capacity to choose, to discern, to pause. That ability, which he calls Vivek, cannot be downloaded or outsourced. No machine can love for us, understand for us, or live life on our behalf. If we stop exercising our own judgment, we become like stones, moved by whatever force pushes us next. Technology reflects who we are. If we are confused, biased, or restless, our machines will amplify that. If we are clear and conscious, technology becomes a loyal servant. The choice has always been ours. We can either hand over our freedom and become passive consumers of our own creations, or we can step up, do the inner work, and deserve the inheritance we have received. Without that elevation, we are no different from the stone. With it, technology becomes not our master, but our means of genuine liberation.

What do you think? Are we truly growing on the inside or just getting better at hiding our emptiness behind brighter screens? Have you ever caught yourself outsourcing a simple decision to an algorithm without even realising it? And most importantly, if inner growth cannot be automated, what are we actually doing every day to deserve the power we now hold in our hands? Drop your thoughts below. ⬇️⬇️

(Article originally published in The Sunday
Guardian on 2 Nov 2025.)

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