Acharya Prashant explains that every festival is like an examination day. He posits that only certain people have the right to celebrate on such a day: those who have prepared well for the exams and have done justice to their preparation throughout the year. These are the ones who have the right to celebrate, while others have no reason to do so. For those who were dishonest and did not do justice to their preparations, they have miserably failed the exam. To then celebrate this failure is described as not merely stupid, but wicked. By celebrating, one is trying to convince oneself that they have passed the exam. The speaker calls this a perverse logic and an inversion, where because those who clear an exam celebrate, one decides to celebrate to convince themselves they have cleared it. He remarks on the great depths of depravity possible to humans. Applying this to Diwali, he states that we are given an entire year to prepare. This preparation is not about cleaning one's house, but about cleaning one's life. He questions whether we have cleaned up our lives, as an entire year was available to prepare for the festival. Excellence has always been a rarity, and Shri Ramchandra is the epitome of excellence. Without bringing that excellence into our lives, the celebration becomes a mere circus. We don't deserve it. In response to the question of how to celebrate Diwali, the speaker advises to start preparing for the next one, as this one is already lost for the 99% of people who will be celebrating it. He urges listeners to prepare for the next Diwali by living their lives just as Shri Ram lived his. Only then, he concludes, will one have earned the right to celebrate Diwali.