Acharya Prashant addresses the issue of living a mechanical life. He explains that if one can see that everything in their life is mechanical, they have already taken a step forward, as a machine lacks the power to observe itself. By becoming a witness to one's own mechanical nature, one has moved beyond the machine. The one who knows that life is routine-bound and mechanical has already taken a step beyond the machine. He advises to simply continue this knowing. The speaker elaborates that all trouble, boredom, and restlessness stem from being trapped within the machine without recognizing it as such. One gets stuck when they consider the machine to be something valuable or even conscious. The person who realizes that their experiences are just the same old work and stories happening in new ways and different places will not get entangled. We get trapped by attraction and excitement, which arise when we believe something new is happening that will give us what we've never had before. Acharya Prashant discusses the role of hope, stating that we continue living because of the hope that something new will happen, something that will finally bring fulfillment. However, when this hope is combined with ignorance—the failure to see that we are merely repeating old actions—it leads to sorrow because the hope is never fulfilled. One cannot find a new destination by walking on old paths. The possibility of finding something new only opens up when we see that we are constantly repeating old actions. The person who understands this becomes detached. Quoting Shri Krishna, he says such a person moves beyond the 'fever' (jwar) of excitement and becomes cool, or 'Vigat-Jwar'. To see things as they are, one must first be established in their own reality, which spirituality calls the Self (Atma). We see the world as we are, not as it is. The observer, not the object, is responsible for the perception. If you are right, the world will appear right. The solution is not to change the external world but to shed one's own intoxication. This is what spirituality or self-knowledge is about: coming to your senses, looking at yourself with honesty, and asking sharp questions about your own beliefs.