Acharya Prashant addresses the question of why Indian men are perceived as lustful, using the recent incident of a Spanish tourist's rape in Jharkhand as a starting point. He asserts that the issue is not merely about lust but stems from a deeper problem: a lack of understanding of one's own nature (Prakriti). He explains that many foreign women have shared experiences of Indian men being excessively lustful, with the 'Indian male gaze' being a known phenomenon. He argues that this is not just about one natural instinct but a broader issue of how all physical tendencies are handled in Indian society. He points out that Indians are often unconscious in matters of eating and drinking, which is why India is the diabetes and heart attack capital of the world. This lack of consciousness is a result of not understanding the body's needs. This same lack of understanding is applied to sexuality. Instead of understanding it, society has suppressed it. The speaker explains that what is suppressed does not disappear; it goes into the subconscious and manifests in dreams and unconscious actions. He states that the path of understanding says not to suppress, praise, or condemn without understanding. One must first see and understand. This is the path of knowledge. However, in India, anything worldly, material, or physical is not given the respect of being understood. Instead, things are simply labeled as good or bad. Sex, for instance, has been labeled as bad and is therefore suppressed. The speaker emphasizes that nature can be understood, but it cannot be suppressed or killed. He refers to the Durga Saptashati, stating that one who tries to suppress nature is not a religious person but a demon (rakshas). Acharya Prashant further elaborates that the Indian concept of religion has become synonymous with blind faith and suppression, rather than knowledge (gyaan) and inquiry. The first sign of a religious person is curiosity, the desire to know. However, in India, a religious person is often seen as one who simply bows their head to an external supreme power without questioning. This, he argues, is a fake religion that places the highest truth outside of oneself, when the essence of spirituality is that the highest is one's own inner potential. The path of knowledge (Gyaan Marg), or self-knowledge (Aatma-gyaan), is about knowing oneself, including the ego. He concludes that because the Indian mind has been taught to suppress rather than understand, lust remains a deeply repressed and therefore perversely expressed force. The culture has turned religion into a practice of following rules without understanding, which is the root of many problems.