Acharya Prashant explains that when you come upon something beautiful, you must try to understand it, which is the true meaning of watching or looking. He distinguishes between merely glancing and truly looking, stating that to look is to understand. If one is looking but not understanding, it indicates an underlying desire to avoid. This avoidance can lead to superficial relationships where one can look at someone for years or decades and yet remain a total stranger to their reality, just as one can read holy books their entire life and understand nothing because the teachings do not manifest in their life. The speaker elaborates that one can look at a savior figure for a long time without gaining any real closeness because they never truly understand. Instead of approaching the secret or the core with love, they remain focused on external actions, words, and what he calls "fluff." He gives the example of standing before a statue of Shri Krishna; one may be physically close but remain far from the essence of Krishna. This is because something within us does not want to acknowledge the truth, as the truth is so poignant that it would cause our falseness to melt away. When one truly looks at the truth, there is not just illumination but also a deep pathos, a sense of humiliation, and a recognition of suffering. Acharya Prashant explains that the savior bird, or the witness, sits on the same branch as the worldly bird out of love and compassion, with no personal purpose. The witness takes upon itself a great deal of suffering for the sake of its sister bird. To look carefully means to not allow logic to run amok and make quick, cheap conclusions based on superficial similarities. The ego, which hates uncertainty, creates stories to avoid facing the unknown. The ego's operating principle is that there is no truth except itself, so even the Truth must be made to resemble the ego. This is how we relate to the Truth—by turning it into a decorated shadow of our own lives. True looking, therefore, requires setting aside all assumptions and seeking to know with an open mind.