New Delhi, Oct. 26 -- People fear being exposed as ignorant more than they fear death, philosopher and author Acharya Prashant said during an interactive session on the Katha Upanishad at the KCC Institute of Technology and Management in Greater Noida, arguing that the ego is more concerned with protecting its image than the body.
"The biggest fear in life is that in someone's eyes we may be called ignorant, a fool. The biggest fear is that someone may say, what have you achieved in life?" he told participants during a discussion that examined the relationship between knowledge, action, and the human ego.
The session centred on a verse from the Katha Upanishad that describes the Brahmin and Kshatriya as food and death as the condiment acc...