Acharya Prashant explains that the world operates on a dualistic and contradictory principle. It simultaneously provides opportunities for intoxication, such as liquor dens, and delivers moral lessons that condemn such behavior. This creates a two-pronged attack on the individual. On one hand, the world, through its laws and societal norms, sanctions and provides access to alcohol. On the other hand, the same world, through schools, religion, and moral teachings, labels drinking as wrong and immoral. This contradiction results in a double harm. The act of drinking leads to a state of unconsciousness, which is a direct harm. Concurrently, the moral condemnation of drinking fills the mind with guilt and regret, making the individual feel small, incapable, and immoral. This traps the person in a cycle of suffering. The speaker asserts that the world offers both the poison (intoxication) and the supposed antidote (morality), but both ultimately lead to the individual's destruction because true understanding is never provided. The speaker argues that morality, as it has been taught for thousands of years, is ineffective. It has failed to eliminate addiction because it does not address the root cause. He broadens the definition of 'alcohol' to encompass anything that leads to unconsciousness, including entertainment, shopping, ambition, and goals. He states that the fundamental reason people seek any form of intoxication is to escape from suffering. A person seeks unconsciousness only when their conscious state is painful. The true solution, he suggests, is not morality, which he calls another form of intoxication, but understanding and awareness. As long as the world is filled with suffering, people will seek escape through various intoxicants. The current systems of education and family conditioning perpetuate this cycle by focusing on external objects and instilling flawed values, rather than fostering self-awareness and meditation. Until the root causes of suffering are addressed through deep understanding, the need for intoxication, in all its forms, will persist.