Acharya Prashant explains that the obsession with big fat Indian weddings is a manifestation of a subjugated consciousness that is enslaved to the body. He argues that while humans have the capacity for higher conceptualization, they often live like animals, driven by bodily imperatives such as pleasure, security, and reproduction. Because marriage represents the fulfillment of these animalistic desires—specifically sexual pleasure and continuity through reproduction—society celebrates it excessively. He describes a wedding as a 'festival of the body' where people seek social and legal licenses for animalistic behaviors while pretending to be higher beings.