Acharya Prashant explains that what is referred to as common consciousness is indeed conditioning. He defines material as that which is a product of certain conditions, stating that everything in *Prakriti* (the material world) is a product of its conditions. Therefore, conditioning is both a process and an output; everything is conditioned and is the result of a process. When asked if death is the end of a reaction, he clarifies that it is merely a change in reaction, and change is always happening. He uses the analogy of an iron piece and a magnet: as the distance between them changes, the attractive force changes. This is not death, but simply a change. In one condition, something behaves one way, and when the condition changes, it behaves in another way. Acharya Prashant further elaborates that if one sees people as people, one will get angry. If one sees them as animals, one will still have expectations. However, if one sees people as processes, anger will dissolve. He explains that a person is not a person but a process, a mass of chemicals. One cannot get angry at a process like one cannot get angry at hydrogen peroxide. The person one is angry at is not a person but a process, a collection of chemicals. This understanding is the essence of *Ahimsa* (non-violence)—not merely refraining from anger, but seeing its pointlessness because the other person, as a process, cannot help what they are doing. He asserts that real consciousness is choice, whereas a process has no choice. The person in front of you is choiceless. When someone makes a 'wrong choice,' it signifies they were helpless and choiceless. There isn't a right or wrong choice, but rather the presence or absence of choice. The presence of choice is the right choice, and its absence is the wrong one. This is possible only when one first sees that they themselves are not a person but a process. The ego is like an uninvited intruder at a party who must pretend to know someone inside to be allowed in. Similarly, the ego needs to be 'with someone' or identify with something to survive. It cannot exist alone.