On Advaita Vedanta: Let the ego be concerned with something beyond itself

The following excerpt is from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Vidyā does not take you to Brahman. That is another popular misconception, kindly get rid of it. Vidyā has to go away for only Brahman to remain. Brahman is immortality. When you believed in the universe, then you also believed in the study of the universe. So, a belief in the study of the universe implies a belief in the universe itself. When the universe will drop, the study of the universe, too, will simultaneously drop. So, with the universe gone, avidyā too has gone. Similarly, with the mind gone, vidyā too has gone.

No vidyā can, hence, take you to the Truth. Because though vidyā is the study of the mind, vidyā can only reveal to you the falseness of the mind. And if the mind is false, what have you been studying? If the mind has…