Acharya Prashant explains that it is easy to recognize when someone from the outside tries to rule over you because it is very clear. Our senses look outward, and the mind, which is not very intelligent, can easily understand when someone external is growling at it. Even an animal understands this. However, the internal system, which includes the conditioning we receive from the outside and our innate, nature-based tendencies, is something we identify as 'I' or 'mine'. Consequently, when the speaker teaches to rebel against slavery, people engage in a partial and self-destructive rebellion. They start breaking all external discipline, believing they are living fearlessly as taught. However, they do not challenge the internal system—the inner anarchy and laziness—because they consider it to be their own self. The speaker emphasizes that this inner entity, which you call 'I', is more external than the external and is your most dangerous enemy. He repeatedly urges to be saved from oneself, from what sits inside you, acting as your advisor and well-wisher, which is your greatest foe. We are like animals, conditioned to look outward. It is easy to rebel against an external person who scolds us, and similarly, we might even rebel against an external well-wisher. We lack the eyes to look inward. The greatest wounds in life are inflicted not by those who are external, but by those who sit within our hearts and strike from the inside. We are then ashamed to even say who hurt us. To protect ourselves from this internal enemy, one must open the inner eye, which requires practice and discipline. The real rebellion is not a cinematic fight against the world, but a conquest of the self by going inward. The enemy within has our face, our name, our eyes, and our body; it is us. Nature has not prepared us to fight this inner enemy; for that, someone else must prepare us.
