25 Dec 2011 - QA 6

If we have to become 'hollow and empty', why do we have to fill our minds with knowledge?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: A thorn has to remove another thorn.
See, this is like asking, what is the need to put soap on your body when you have to wash it off anyways.
To wash clothes, what do you do? You put the soap and then you wash it away.
Similarly, it is like asking me, if I need to get out of the bus then why should I get into the bus?
But where you get into the bus and where you get out of the bus is different.